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

Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 8

James W. CortadaWiley/IEEE Computer Society PressLos Alamitos, CAOctober 2009288 pp.ISBN 9780470534984$29.95 (paperback)

Keywords: Cybernetics, Communication technologies

There are many publications that describe how society influences and indeed changes society. This book, however, focuses on the role of corporations and governments. It should make good reading for those who are involved in management and is aimed we are told, at government policy makers with interests in economic development, and also at private-sector managers who routinely make decisions to acquire and use information technology.