| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Technology, work and globalization |
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Technology, work and globalization.
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| Contents |
Mobility: emerging challenges -- Technology: enabling capabilities -- Work: facing paradoxes -- Creativity: fluid performances -- Collaboration: transparent interdendendencies -- Control: effective interventions -- Portfolios: amplified mobility -- Challenges: managing mobile performances |
| Summary |
With billions of mobile phones, hundreds of millions of notebook computers and a range of other ubiquitous information technology, it is difficult to locate a contemporary organization that does not in some way rely on mobile information technology. However, the essential challenges related to the organizational use of such technology (enterprise mobility) have so far only been subjected to sporadic research efforts. This book provides an in-depth exploration of the main challenges mobile workers are faced with when engaging in the mutual adjustment of technological opportunities and organizational realities. As the technology in question offers uniquely intimate bonds with the user, the analysis emphasizes our understanding of such relationships, and distills the core characteristics of mobile information technology. It offers a comprehensive view of the challenges of resolving the paradox of facilitating fluid working arrangements while cultivating interaction, collaboration and control barriers |
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"There are currently 3.5 billion mobile phones in the world and mobile information technologies permeate all aspects of life. This book explores how mobile technologies and information work shape each other. Most writings do not consider how information work increasingly relies on mobile services; this book seeks to address this imbalance"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mobile communication systems -- Social aspects
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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Communication and culture.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications Industries.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Information Management.
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COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
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Communication and culture
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230306202 |
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0230306209 |
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