Information for Innovation

Managing Change from an Information Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-924147-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Information is not taken seriously. Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. Information is not as other good: it has some very odd characteristics, conveniently overlooked by senior managers passionate about knowledge-based, learning organizations; by politicians and public servants, compensating with policy and programme for the information failure of organizationa and market; and by the IT and dotcom communities, bent on adding value to what they treat as just a commodity.

This book looks at innovation from an information perspective; one that puts information first. Its information perspective is applied to eighteenth-century agriculture and high technology, to technology transfer and espionage, to corporate strategy and intellectual property. The results are intriguing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macdonald, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Information and Theory

- Chapter 1: The Nature of Information

- Chapter 2: Change and Innovation

- Chapter 3: Sources of Information for Change and Innovation

- Chapter 4: The Flow of Information

- Chapter 5: The Mixing of Information

- Part II: Information and Practice

- Chapter 6: Resistance to Information: The Organization and the Independent Inventor

- Chapter 7: Information Intrigue: Controlling the Flow of Information

- Chapter 8: Information Innocence: High-Technology Policy and Technology Parks

- Chapter 9: Transfer without Transaction: Policy for Information Acquisition

- Chapter 10: Hidden Information Flow: Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Agriculture

- Chapter 11: The Illusion of Order: Innovation and the Patent System

- Chapter 12: Information and Control: Strategic Change in the Organization

- Concluding Thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart Macdonald is Professor of Information and Organization at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Technology and the Tyranny of Export Controls: Whisper Who Dares (Macmillan, 1990) and (with Ernest Braun) Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics (Cambridge University Press, 1982).