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Information for Innovation: Managing Change from an Information Perspective


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Information is not taken seriously. Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. Information is not as other good: it has some very odd characteristics, conveniently overlooked by senior managers passionate about knowledge-based, learning organizations; by politicians and public servants, compensating with policy and programme for the information failure of organizationa and market; and by the IT and dotcom communities, bent on adding value to what they treat as just a commodity. This book looks at innovation from an information perspective; one that puts information first. Its information perspective is applied to eighteenth-century agriculture and high technology, to technology transfer and espionage, to corporate strategy and intellectual property. The results are intriguing.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Information and Theory Chapter 1: The Nature of Information Chapter 2: Change and Innovation Chapter 3: Sources of Information for Change and Innovation Chapter 4: The Flow of Information Chapter 5: The Mixing of Information Part II: Information and Practice Chapter 6: Resistance to Information: The Organization and the Independent Inventor Chapter 7: Information Intrigue: Controlling the Flow of Information Chapter 8: Information Innocence: High-Technology Policy and Technology Parks Chapter 9: Transfer without Transaction: Policy for Information Acquisition Chapter 10: Hidden Information Flow: Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Agriculture Chapter 11: The Illusion of Order: Innovation and the Patent System Chapter 12: Information and Control: Strategic Change in the Organization Concluding Thoughts

About the Author :
Stuart Macdonald is Professor of Information and Organization at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Technology and the Tyranny of Export Controls: Whisper Who Dares (Macmillan, 1990) and (with Ernest Braun) Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics (Cambridge University Press, 1982).

Review :
Information for Innovation, by MacDonald is an interesting book, providing a fresh new perspective on a topic of particular interest to economies possessing ever more increasing knowledge intensive production processes. It is illustrated by a very broad and diverse range of examples, that demonstrate the general applicability of the chosen approach. Marcus Hagermeister, Information Economics and Policy, 2000


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199241477
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Managing Change from an Information Perspective
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199241473
  • Publisher Date: 21 Dec 2000
  • Height: 217 mm
  • No of Pages: 308
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 368 gr


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