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Representing Organization
Knowledge, Management, and the Information Age
Simon Lilley, Geoffrey Lightfoot, and Paulo Amaral M. N.
220 pages
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2 tables, 3 figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-877542-3
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Paperback
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17 June 2004
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- Accessible theoretical analysis of the organizational impact of information technologies
- Uses a number of real cases to demonstrate theoretical viewpoints
- Introduces readers to a number of theoretical approaches, including systems theory, social constructivism, labour process theory, post-structuralism, and actor network theory
- Identifies key concepts and themes and discussion questions to guide the reader
This textbook provides an accessible theoretical analysis of the organizational impact of information technologies.
It seeks to examine and comment upon the myriad ways in which actors, organizations, and environments are represented through these technologies. Contemporary threats to organizational form and stability are considered alongside the potential that information technologies offer to both exacerbate and overcome them. It examines, amongst others, issues surrounding the material and symbolic aspects of information systems; risk and prediction; systems implementation and systems success; knowledge
management practices; accountability and other management practices; computerized modelling; and the virtual organization. To this end it deploys a number of different theoretical lenses including:
· systems theory
· social constructivism
· labour process theory
· post-structuralism
· actor network theory
These offer complementary and contrasting insights into the computerization of managerial work. In order to ensure that the book is both relevant and approachable to students from a range of backgrounds these theories are applied to real examples of the development and implementation of information systems. This combination fosters practical knowledge that is theoretically informed. The book thus
aims to bridge the gap between the abstractions of current theories of organization and the grounded material that forms the bulk of Information Systems literature. It thus offers a novel way into the ongoing debates surrounding technological change and the perennial problems of managerial control.
It has been designed to support theoretically informed Information and Technology courses at the advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and will also be of interest to academics in the fields of Management, Information Technology, Sociological, and Cultural studies.
Readership: Advanced students on Information and Communication Technology and Organization Studies
courses; Academics within the fields of Management, Information Technology, Organization Studies, Sociology, and Cultural Studies
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Simon Lilley, Management Centre, University of Leicester, Geoffrey Lightfoot, Critical Organization Studies, University for Humanistics, Utrecht and Department of Management, Keele University, and Paulo Amaral M. N., Department of Management, Keele University
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Introduction
1: Management, Information, and the Labour Process
2: Information, Representation, and Organization
3: The Conceptual Basis of Information Systems: Modelling the World
4: Speaking for Information Systems: Analyzing and Prescribing Material Information
5: Representation 2: Representation and Simulation
6: New Management Practices: Empowerment, Information, and Control
7: Accountability and Systems Success
8: The Virtual Organization
9: Representation 3: Risk, Control, and the Escape of Uncertainty
10: Handling Knowledge Management
Post-script
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