Information systems and the diversity of globalization /

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Author / Creator:Avgerou, Chrisanthi.
Imprint:Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:viii, 267 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4649208
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ISBN:0199240779
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Theory
  • 1. The Institutional Nature of ICT and Organizational Change
  • 2. The Socio-technical Nature of Information Systems Innovation
  • 3. Multiple Situated Rationalities
  • 4. The Global, the Local, and the Disembedded
  • Part II. Insights from Case Studies
  • 5. Pemex-Transforming a National Company
  • 6. IKA-Striving to Modernize a State Bureaucracy
  • 7. An Experiment of Flexible Specialization in Cyprus
  • 8. Medical Drug Utilization Information Systems in the United States and Europe
  • 9. The Nature and Significance of Global Diversity for Information Systems
  • Appendix