How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us (Paperback)

This book discusses how computers are shaping contemporary society, with a tight focus on the role of corporations and governments. It is aimed at government policymakers interested in economic development and at private-sector managers who routinely make decisions to acquire and use information technology, now a worldwide expenditure of over $2 trillion annually. The book will also interest a wide range of academics concerned with the sociology, history, economics, and the effects of IT on contemporary society, ands to the general trade market.

本書討論了電腦如何塑造當代社會，重點關注企業和政府的角色。它針對對經濟發展感興趣的政府政策制定者以及經常做出購買和使用資訊技術決策的私營部門經理。現在，全球每年的資訊技術支出已超過2萬億美元。本書還將吸引關注社會學、歷史、經濟學以及資訊技術對當代社會影響的廣泛學術界人士，以及一般貿易市場的讀者。