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

Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 35, Issue 6

James W. Cortada,IEEE Computer Society Press, Wiley (North America),2009 (October),Price:Paper $29.98 (Possible discount for ACM/IEEB members),288 pp.,ISBN 978-047-053-498 4

Keywords: Cybernetics, Management science, Society,Computers

Cyberneticians and management scientists will be interested in this publication. It tackles the issues concerned with the way in which computers are shaping contemporary society. It is aimed, the publishers say, at focussing the role of corporations and governments on the impact computing systems have on our society. It should provide government policymakers with interests in economic development, and also private-sector managers who have to make decisions about the acquisition and use of information technology with both interesting and worthwhile lessons.