Governing Through Technology Information

Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances. This book describes the vital importance that digital information acquires in restructuring organizations.

Jennis Kallinikos is professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His Current research focuses on the study of technological information in all its forms (text, voice, image) and digital formats and the implications its diffusion carries for organizations and institutions.

List of Tables	p. viii
List of Figures	p. ix
Foreword	p. x
Technology as Object of Social Enquiry	p. 1
The Regulative Regime of Technology	p. 12
Bounds and Freedoms: Re-Opening the Blackbox of Technology	p. 34
Unpacking Information Packages: Rationalization and Governanace	p. 46
Addendum on the Behavioural Implications of Information Packages	p. 63
Control and Complexity in a Connected World	p. 72
Cognitive Foundations of Work: The Workplace as Information	p. 91
Information Tokens and Reality: A Parable of the Internet	p. 124
References	p. 143
Author Index	p. 155
Subject Index	p. 158
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