"This book offers an in-depth description of concepts related to different areas, issues, and trends within education and technological integration in modern society and includes definitions and terms, as well as explanations of concepts and processes regarding the integration of technology into...

The process of technology diffusion is complex, and one should bear in mind that multiple elements may be claimed as its essential determinants. Insofar, voluminous theoretical and empirical literature has been issued where attempts of identification of the latter has been made. However, we...

Our paper is based on the qualitative content analysis (Gläser/Laudel 2010) of expert interviews with IT managers in German speaking countries. Drawing also from organisational development processes we have been carrying out, we analyse how the tension between the service function of IT as...