1st Edition
Information Warfare in Business Strategies of Control and Resistance in the Network Society
By Iain Munro
Copyright 2005
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Information Warfare in Business provides a significant and interesting perspective on the concept of the network organization. It illustrates the relations between information technology and organization, and in particular, between business organizations and the recent revolution in military affairs that has been called 'information warfare'. The main themes discussed include the network society, knowledge management, nomadic strategy, information warfare, power and identity.
Chapter 1 Information warfare in business; Part 1 Creative organizational forms; Chapter 2 Strategies for the Information Age; Chapter 3 Mapping knowledge; Part 2 The weapon of information; Chapter 4 Organization, society and information warfare; Chapter 5 The virus metaphor; Part 3 Changing power relations; Chapter 6 Power relations in the Information Age; Chapter 7 Real-time; Chapter 8 Conclusions, connections, lines of flight;
Biography
Iain Munro is lecturer at the department of management at the University of St Andrews. He has published research in the fieldsof organisation studies, operation research and business ethics.