Inside the Imf - An Ethnography of Documents, Technology, and Organizational Action

Informationen zum Autor Richard H. R. Harper Klappentext Uses the International Monetary Fund as a case study to show how thinking differently about IT systems can dramatically improve the manageability and accessibility of documents in organisations. This book considers such IT systems as search and retrieval applications! the use of hypertext documents! and shared database applications. Zusammenfassung In this book, Richard Harper uses the International Monetary Fund as a case study to show how thinking differently about IT systems can dramatically improve the manageability and accessibility of documents in organisations. The systems he considers uses search and retrieval applications, the use of hypertext documents and shared database applications like Lotus Notes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. What Is a Document? Designing Ethnography. A Sketch of the Fund. The Machinery of Policy Work. The Use of Information. Desk Officers. A Mission to Arcadia. The Use of a Staff Report. Conclusion. References.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Harper, Richard H. R. Harper, Harper Richard, Richard Harper, Jonathon Simpson
• Assisted by: Jonathon Simpson (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.1997
• EAN: 9780123258403
• ISBN: 978-0-12-325840-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Computers and People
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, Human-Computer Interaction, Organizational theory & behaviour, International Economics, International Finance, Human–computer interaction, Organizational theory and behaviour, COMPUTERS / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)