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  • - Claudio Ciborra's Legacy in Information Systems Research
     
    1 387,-

    Claudio Ciborra was one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of information systems. This book explains the intellectual contribution of Ciborra's work in a substantial introductory chapter, contains the most significant of his articles, and provides a sample of research that draws from his ideas.

  • av Leslie P. Willcocks & Nik Rushdi Hassan
    2 009,-

  • - Rationale and Processes
     
    2 031,-

    The information systems (IS) field represents a multidisciplinary area that links the rapidly changing technology of information (or communications and information technology, ICT) to the business and social environment.

  • - Organizations and Organizing in the Digital Age
     
    2 073,-

    This volume focuses on new ways of working, and explores implications of these new practices with a particular emphasis on the place occupied by technology, materiality and bodies within contemporary working configurations.

  • - Spaces, Embodiment and Technology in Management and Organization
     
    1 857,-

    This book aims at clarifying the role of materiality, spaces, digitality and embodiment in institutional dynamics from the perspective of Management & Organization Studies.

  • - Exploring Modes of IT Governance
    av Eleni Lioliou
    1 626,-

    The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Foucauldian perspectives are brought to bear on five outsourcing relationships in order to test the application of these discourses to rich qualitative data over the outsourcing contractual life-cycle.

  • - Global Sourcing with Social Impact
     
    1 387,-

    Socially Responsible Outsourcing is an edited collection that focus on the topic of socially responsible outsourcing (SRO) including research frameworks, rich case studies, and an SRO agenda for the future.

  • - The Services Challenge
    av Leslie P. Willcocks & Mary C. Lacity
    1 387,-

    While China is known for its huge manufacturing base, in recent years the government has given high priority to science and technology services. This book provides an in-depth, contemporary view on where China is heading, how it is going to get there, and how companies and countries can engage with China's emerging outsourcing capabilities.

  • - Becoming Strategic in the Global Marketplace
    av Leslie P. Willcocks, Mary C. Lacity & A. Craig
    1 387,-

    Since 2007, South Africa has been one of the world's upcoming Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) offshore destinations. This book is based on the authors' most recent research into high performance BPO globally and new research streams specifically on South Africa.

  • - Towards a Dynamic Fit Model
    av Albert Plugge
    1 387,-

    Through case studies this volume provides evidence that a link between sourcing capabilities and organizational structure contributes to a positive sourcing performance. Reveals that providers who are able to adapt to changing client circumstances, whilst establishing a fit, succeed in achieving a sustainable performance.

  • - Achieving Social and Environmental Responsibility in Global IT and Business Process Outsourcing
    av Brian Nicholson & Ron Babin
    726,-

    Through a series of case studies and surveys, the authors examine current sustainability trends in outsourcing and recommend how providers should prepare for increasing buyer demands in this area, suggesting buyers and providers can work together to build successful outsourcing relationships through collaborative sustainability projects.

  • - Rethinking ITO, BPO and Cloud Services
     
    1 387,-

    A rich database of over 2,200 outsourcing arrangements, studied across sectors and geographies, and over time, from inception, through contract signing, to outcomes. This book has unparalleled insight into the robust practices that have been proven effective time and again.

  • - Information Artefacts and Social Practice
    av Jannis Kallinikos
    1 387,-

    Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances. This book describes the vital importance that digital information acquires in restructuring organizations.

  • - New Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices
     
    2 123,-

    This edited book examines the relationship between the materiality of artefacts and managerial techniques, combining the recent scholarly interest on socio-materiality with a focus on management.

  • - A Focus on Rural India
    av S. Madon
    726,-

    Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of eGovernance for Development projects. Drawing on evidence from three longitudinal case studies of rural eGovernance projects this book shows that improving systems of governance is fundamentally a social rather than managerial or technological activity.

  • - Change and Social Innovation
    av H. Oinas-Kukkonen
    741,-

    Offers a vivid description of the ongoing transformation of the web into something that is widely recognized and that will have an enormous impact on how people work and live their lives in the future. Presents concepts that will help readers understand why the web evolved as it did, what is going on right now, and what will happen next.

  • - Organizations, Artefacts and Practices
     
    1 387,-

    Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work.

  • - Tiny Technology with Global Impact on Work
    av C. Sorensen
    1 387,-

    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.

  • - Social, Global and Local Dimensions
     
    873,-

    In recent years, there has been much interest in the 'virtual' -teams, organizations and communities -in management research and practice. As technology and social practices change we have more opportunity to experience different forms of virtuality, and in the process our understanding and conception of virtuality changes.

  • - From Cost Management to Collaborative Innovation
    av Leslie P. Willcocks, Sara Cullen & Andrew Craig
    606 - 1 387,-

    Evidence shows that organizations with both a CEO and a team involved in sourcing strategy and supplier configuration make more effective decisions. If the wrong supplier is chosen, performance can be negatively affected. Here the authors look at how companies can improve their outsourcing capabilities.

  • - New Trends in Management and Organization Studies
     
    1 387,-

    Materiality, Rules and Regulation: New Trend in Management and Organization Studies concentrates on the relationship of rules and regulation to the materiality of artefacts, practices, and organizations. It combines the recent scholarly interest on sociomateriality with a focus on regulation and rules.

  • - Historical Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices
     
    1 387,-

    The book explores how time is materialized and performed in organizations; examines how organizations and organizational members are constituted by and constitutive of material artefacts; and reflects on what a historical perspective on these materializations can bring to the study of organizations.

  • av E. Whitley & G. Hosein
    726,-

    The goals of this book are to provide a comprehensive review of identity policies as they are being implemented in various countries around the world, to consider the key arenas where identity policies are developed and to provide intellectual coherence for making sense of these various activities.

  • - Theories, Cases and Practices
     
    2 711,-

    This book is a guide for achieving innovation through outsourcing. Written by leading figures in the area of outsourcing, this book offers both the academic rigor and the hands-on experience based on dozens of cases that walk the reader from the very beginning of the outsourcing journey to the successful delivery of transformative innovations.

  • - New Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices
     
    2 123,-

    This edited book examines the relationship between the materiality of artefacts and managerial techniques, combining the recent scholarly interest on socio-materiality with a focus on management.

  • - Theories, Cases and Practices
     
    2 706,-

    This book is a guide for achieving innovation through outsourcing. Written by leading figures in the area of outsourcing, this book offers both the academic rigor and the hands-on experience based on dozens of cases that walk the reader from the very beginning of the outsourcing journey to the successful delivery of transformative innovations.

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