Authors: Abbe Mowshowitz.
Hardcover, 280 pages
Publisher: Quorum Books
Publication Date: 2002-03-30


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    Computers mediate between individuals by providing channels of communication in the form of messaging sytems. They act as brokers in matching buyers and sellers, employees and employers, resources and work processes, and so on. The explosive growth of electronic commerce on the Internet has made such functions commonplace. Computer-based mediation and brokerage, along with the expanding role of information technology in the continuing globalization of the economy, has tremendous political, social, managerial, and economic consequences. For managers, and for the concept of organization in general, these consequences manifest themselves most clearly in the virtual organization, a new paradigm that has been evolving for decades and that is swiftly gathering steam and overtaking traditional organization. Virtual organization is founded on the separation of requirements (for example, inputs such as components) from the ways in which requirements are met, or satisfiers (for example, suppliers and distribution networks). Separating these elements allows managers to switch easily from one way of meeting a requirement to another, by, for example, laying off higher-paid workers in the United States and hiring cheaper labor overseas or south of the border. Used systematically, switching brings huge increases in productivity, provided that transaction costs are held in check. The price of this increased inefficiency is that, practiced regularly, switching weakens personal, political, and business loyalties. Absent a sense of loyalty to persons or places, virtual organizations distance themselves--both geographically and psychologically--from the regions and countries in which they operate. This process is undermining the nation-state, which cannot continue indefinitely to control virtual organizations. A new feudal system is in the making, in which power and authority are vested in private hands but which is based on globally distributed resources rather than on possession of land. The evolution of this new political economy will determine how we do business in the future. Management scholars, political scientists, policy analysts, sociologists, economists, legal scholars, computer scientists, managers, government professionals, information technology professionals, and even students of philosophy will find Mowshowitz's valuable insights useful in their respective efforts to determine the highly variegated meanings of virtual organization....

Authors: Donald Zeigler.
Paperback, 103 pages
Publisher: Assn of Amer Geographers
Publication Date: 1984-04

Authors: Paul A. Strassmann.
Hardcover, 298 pages
Publisher: The Free Press
Publication Date: 1985-02-01

Authors: Mario Raich. Simon L. Dolan.
Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2008-09-25


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Authors: Arthur Kroker.
Paperback, 250 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 1991-12-15

Authors:
Hardcover, 381 pages
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Publication Date: 1995-02


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    Contributed articles....

Authors: Dana Desonie.
Library Binding, 199 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Publication Date: 2008-01-30
Edition: 1

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    Though climate change is normal in Earth's history, global warming has raised average temperatures to their highest in two millennia, resulting in melting ice caps, shorter winters, changes in the seasonal behaviors of animals, and more extreme weather. And though greenhouse gases are essential for keeping the planet's temperatures comfortable, fossil fuel burning and other human activities are increasing greenhouse gas levels and causing temperatures to rise. While a decade ago many scientists were skeptical that human activities could impact the climate system, their models now show that only human activities can account for the magnitude of changes being seen. "Climate" is a timely new book that discusses the issue of global warming and what we can do to prevent its rise. Highly visual and written in a clear, accessible manner, this book adresses how people must use energy more efficiently, develop alternative energy sources, and lower emissions technologies....

Authors: Arthur Kroker.
Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 1985-11

Authors: Rudi Volti.
Paperback, 323 pages
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Publication Date: 2000-11-30
Edition: Fourth Edition

Authors: Morley Winograd. Dudley W. Buffa.
Hardcover, 294 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1996-04
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    The authors offer a blueprint for politics in the technological age that takes advantage of the capabilities of high-technology information delivery systems to appeal to the most educated, powerful players in the economy. National ad/promo....