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Managing the Flow of Technology: Technology Transfer and the Dissemination of Technological Information Within the R&D Organization

Allen, Thomas J. - The MIT Press

. The first three chapters provide an overview of the communication system in technology, present the author's research … technical communication within the laboratory is for R & D performance, and originates the idea of the "gatekeeper," the person … organization and of architecture and office layouts on communication. Many of these ideas have been successfully incorporated by …

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Productivity, Volume 3: Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence

Jorgenson, Dale W.; Ho, Mun S.; Stiroh, Kevin J. - The MIT Press

The American economy has experienced renewed growth since 1995, with this surge rooted in the development and deployment of information technology (IT). This book traces the American growth resurgence to its sources within individual industries, documents the critical role of IT, and shows how...

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Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Brynjolfsson, Erik (contributor); Kahin, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the...

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Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation

Cohoon, J. McGrath (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Computing remains a heavily male-dominated field even after twenty-five years of extensive efforts to promote female participation. The contributors to Women and Information Technology look at reasons for the persistent gender imbalance in computing and explore some strategies intended to...

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Information Technology and People: Designing for the Future

Blackler, Frank (contributor); Oborne, David (contributor) - The MIT Press

Today's rapid growth in information technology has occurred without a full understanding of the human consequences of its use--on individuals, on organizations, and on society as a whole. As a result, initial expectations have frequently not been met, and a backlash has developed. Clearly a more...

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Our Modern Times: The Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age

Cohen, Daniel - The MIT Press

The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor created many jobs requiring mindless repetition...

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Social Capital and Information Technology

Huysman, Marleen (contributor); Wulf, Volker (contributor) - The MIT Press

, sociologists, communication specialists, economists, and others presents a multidisciplinary look at this particular intersection …

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Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments

Kaptelinin, Victor (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The computer's metaphorical desktop, with its onscreen windows and hierarchy of folders, is the only digital work environment most users and designers have ever known. Yet empirical studies show that the traditional desktop design does not provide sufficient support for today's real-life tasks...

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Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation

Cowhey, Peter F.; Aronson, Jonathan D. - The MIT Press

Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets … innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping …

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Information and the Modern Corporation

Cortada, James W. - The MIT Press

While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and...

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