Management practices in high-tech environments

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Jemielniak, Dariusz., Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: High technology industries > Management.; Information technology > Management.; Knowledge workers.; Culteral contexts; Culture and technology; Employee indoctrination; Family relations; Gender relations; Identity shaping; Management, technology, and power; Motivation in the high-tech sector; Organizational practices; Self-definition; Technology-based organizations; Time and space in IT; Work relations
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• Item Description: "Premier reference source"--Cover.
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xix, 407 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-400) and index.
• ISBN: 9781599045665 (ebook); 1599045664 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

This book studies this issue thoroughly from an international, comparative, cross-cultural perspective, presenting research on management practices in American, European, Asian and Middle-Eastern high-tech companies, with particular focus on fieldwork-driven, but reflective, contributions.