Information Space (RLE: Organizations)In this book the author lays the foundations for a new political economy of information. The information space, or I-Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions and cultures are being transformed by new information and communication technologies. In the penultimate chapter, the I-Space’s usefulness as an explanatory framework is illustrated with an application: a case study of China’s modernization. Information Space proposes a radical shift in the way that we approach the emerging information age and the implications it holds for societies, organizations and individuals. |
Contents
Orienting thoughts on information | |
The structuring of information | |
The sharing of information | |
Institutions | |
Culture as economizing | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
activity argue articulate become behaviour bureaucracies C-space Cambridge centrifugal culture centripetal culture channel Chapter China Chinese clans codification and abstraction coding cognitive communication competitive complex concepts concrete context cultural evolution data field data processing diffusion curve diffusion scale dimension discussion distribution economic economists effect efficiency energy enterprise entropy epistemological evolution evolutionary example exchange experience external fiefs Figure firm given governance hence hierarchy high context cultures hypotheses I-space individual industrial information asymmetries institutional Institutional Economics internal investment Japan Japanese knowledge learning located London Marxism-Leninism modern move nature neoclassical north-east region organization paradigm Parallel Distributed Processing patterns perceptual physical Popper population possible potential problem production function quadrant Rational Expectations rationality region relationships repertoire Science scientific selection shared social society space strategies symbolic theory transmission uncodified UNDIFFUSED University Press W3 objects