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1 online resource (xix, 407 pages) : illustrations |
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Premier reference source |
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Premier reference source
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| Contents |
IT's just practice : an introduction / Dariusz Jemielniak and Jerzy Kociatkiewicz -- Part I. The high-tech workplace -- Boundary-spanning practices and paradoxes related to trust among people and machines in a high-tech oil and gas environment / Vidar Heps° -- The information society : a global discourse and its local translation into regional organizational practices / Ester Barinaga -- High-tech workers, management strategy, and globalization / Jasmine Folz -- Language norms and debate in hybrid research organizations : personal impacts and organizational outcomes / Kate Hayes and Anneke Fitzgerald -- Part II. The knowledge worker -- High-tech meets end-user / Marc Steen -- Professional dimension of IT specialists' social role : example of Polish programmers / Agnieszka Postua -- Employee turnover in the business process outsourcing industry in India / Aruna Ranganathan and Sarosh Kuruvilla -- Old and new timings in a high-tech firm / Pauline Gleadle -- Trustworthiness as an impression / Dominika Latusek -- Part III. Workplace relations and power -- Social relations and knowledge management theory and practice / Marie-Josée Legault -- "We make magic here" : exploring social and cultural practices within a global software organization in India / Marisa D'Mello -- Outsourcing in high-tech corporations : voices of dissent, resistance, and complicity in a computer programming community / Eric Pieiro and Peter Case -- Power and Ethics in IS evaluation / José-Rodrigo Córdoba and Wendy Robson -- Critical insights into NHS information systems deployment / Rajneesh Chowdhury and Alan Nobbs -- Managerial image, social capital, and risk in a Czech engineering enterprise / Ben Passmore -- Part IV. Self management -- Self-entrepreneurial careers : current management practices in Swiss ICT work / Elisabeth K. Kelan -- Reflections on organizing and managing in self-managed knowledge-work teams : a constructionist turn / James J. Keenan -- The entrepreneurial constitution of high-tech work environments / Maria Aggestam -- Identifying flexibilities / Marja-Liisa Trux -- Disciplining innovation / Chris Russell |
| Summary |
"This book leads to emergence of new, insufficiently analyzed and described organizational phenomena. Thoroughly studying this from international comparative cross-cultural perspective, Management Practices in High-Tech Environments presents cutting-edge research on management practices in American, European, Asian and Middle-Eastern high-tech companies, with particular focus on fieldwork-driven, but reflective, contributions"--Provided by publisher |
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"Premier reference source"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-400) and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
High technology industries -- Management
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Information technology -- Management.
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Knowledge workers -- Management
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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High technology industries -- Management
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Information technology -- Management
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jemielniak, Dariusz
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Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy
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| ISBN |
9781599045665 |
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1599045664 |
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9781599045641 |
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1599045648 |
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6611265872 |
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9786611265878 |
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