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Management practices in high-tech environments

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.

Bibliographic Details
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
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • "Boundary-Spanning" Practices and Paradoxes Related to Trust Among People and Machines in a High-Tech Oil and Gas Environment / Vidar Hepso
  • The Information Society / Ester Barinaga
  • High-Tech Workers, Management Strategy, and Globalization / Jasmine Folz
  • Language Norms and Debate in Triple Helix Organizations / Kathryn J. Hayes, J. Anneke Fitzgerald
  • High-Tech Meets End-User / Marc Steen
  • Professional Dimension of IT Specialists' Social Role / Agnieszka Postula
  • Employee Turnover in the Business Process Outsourcing Industry in India / Aruna Ranganathan, Sarosh Kuruvilla
  • Old and New Timings in a High-Tech Firm / Pauline Gleadle
  • Trustworthiness as an Impression / Dominika Latusek
  • Social Relations and Knowledge Management Theory and Practice / Marie-Josee Legault
  • "We Make Magic Here" / Marisa D'Mello
  • Outsourcing in High-Tech Corporations / Erik Pineiro, Peter Case
  • Power and Ethics in IS Evaluation / Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba, Wendy Robson
  • Critical Insights into NHS Information Systems Deployment / Rajneesh Chowdhury, Alan Nobbs
  • Managerial Image, Social Capital, and Risk in a Czech Engineering Enterprise / Ben Passmore
  • Self-Entrepreneurial Careers / Elisabeth K. Kelan
  • Reflections on Organizing and Managing in Self-Managed Knowledge-Work Teams / James J. Keenan
  • The Entrepreneurial Constitution of High-Tech Work Environments / Maria Aggestam
  • Identifying Flexibilities / Marja-Liisa Trux
  • Disciplining Innovation? Mobile Information Artefacts in a Telco Innovation Center / Chris Russell.

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