Information and organization : a tribute to the work of Don Lamberton
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Information and organization : a tribute to the work of Don Lamberton
North-Holland, 1999
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Don Lamberton was one of the first scholars to recognise the need for information to be taken seriously, he has spent much of his career persuading others. Focusing on his contribution, this volume explores the struggle for recognition of a way of thinking which is fundamental to our understanding of the social and economic role of information. Each of the thirty authors, prominent in information economics and related fields have written a contribution especially for this volume. Vital issues, central to Lamberton's concerns and often ignored in euphoric approaches to information - the plight of the information poor, the poverty of information policy, the future of universal service, quality of employment, organisational and market failure to effect information transactions, the role of information in economic development, problems of codifying, classifying and managing information, the limitations of information systems - are emphasised throughout. The whole encapsulates the vast progress which has been made, not just in academic thinking about information, but in the part this thinking now plays in corporate strategy and government policy. The volume is both an affectionate account of Don Lamberton's contribution to the understanding of information, and also the most comprehensive and authoritative of collections on the social and economic significance of information.
Table of Contents
Abbreviated Contents: Perspectives on D.M. Lamberton. A questioning career (S. Macdonald, J. Nightingale). Select bibliography (D.M. Lamberton). Lamberton's road to cognitive economics (G. Paquet). Information, Economy and Society. Data, information, and inadvertent disinformation (G. Rosegger). Power, politics and public administration (J. Marceau). Designing institutions in the information society (P. Drahos). Knowledge and Innovation. Codified knowledge and innovation: a model (T. Mandeville). On the informational structure and functioning of Japanese organisations - a comparison with western organisations. (H. Oniki). Sisyphus at his exercise: the Internet and consumer-business relations in the US (R.Widdows, K.L. Widdows). Organisations and Markets. The organisational impact of knowledge (B. Martin). Communication, information technology and firm performance (G. Eliasson). Price behaviour within segments of the medical profession in Australia (D.P. Doessel). Telecommunications Policy and Economic Development. Telecommunications policy and the rhetoric of economics (R.A. Joseph). Electronic communications in African development: tracking their impact (M. Menou). The information infrastructure and economic development: how far have we come? Internationalisation and Information. Information and knowledge in the study of internationalisation (L.S. Welch). International knowledge spillovers, absorptive capacity and productivity in OECD countries (H-J. Englebrecht). Globalisation and macroeconomic volatility (N.D. Karunaratne). Author index. Subject index.
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