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Zusatztext Refreshing new scholarly ideas connected to everyday practice. A gold mineof theory and practice. Informationen zum Autor Claudio U. Ciborra is Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics. He is a leading researcher in the areas of information systems, management, and strategy. Affiliated to many leading European universities and research centres, he has conducted several international projects studying the impacts of IT on organizations. Author of many books on this topic, he is also widely published in the related fields of institutional economics, strategy, and organization theory. Klappentext A revealing insight into the issues surrounding information infrastructure implementation in large, global corporations. Case study material from six different international corporations-AstraZeneca, IBM, Norsk Hydro, Roche, SKF, and Statoil-shows a complex picture of implementation, and one that cannot be interpreted using current management thinking. The authors suggest that the economics of standards and increasing returns be joined with the perspectives from the social studies of science and technology to provide the fundamentals for a fresh view of the management of IT in global corporations. Zusammenfassung This volume presents six in-depth case studies of large corporations - AstraZene ca, IBM, Norsk Hydro, Roche, SKF, and Statoil - which offer a rich picture of the main issues involved in information infrastructure implementation and management. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Theory Chapter 2: A Critical Review of the Literature on the Management of Corporate Information Infrastructure Chapter 3: Globalization and 'Risk Society' Chapter 4: The Economics of Standards Chapter 5: Actor-Network Theory Part II: Cases Chapter 6: Conservative Success: Organization and Infrastructure Evolution at SKF Chapter 7: Infrastructure as a Process: The Case of CRM in IBM Chapter 8: Who's in Control: Designers, Managers-or Technology? Infrastructures at Norsk Hydro Chapter 9: Infrastructure Strategy Formation: Seize the Day at Statoil Chapter 10: Global and Local Dynamics in Infrastructure Deployment: The Astra Hässle Experience Chapter 11: From Alignment to Loose Coupling: From MedNet to www.roche.com Chapter 12: Postface: From Infrastructure to Networking ...
