Management practices in high-tech environments
by
 
Jemielniak, Dariusz.

Title
Management practices in high-tech environments

Author
Jemielniak, Dariusz.

ISBN
9781599045665

Publication Information
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.

Physical Description
electronic texts (xix, 407 p. : ill.) : digital files.

General Note
"Premier reference source"--Cover.

Contents
"Boundary-Spanning" Practices and Paradoxes Related to Trust Among People and Machines in a High-Tech Oil and Gas Environment / Vidar Hepso -- The Information Society / Ester Barinaga -- High-Tech Workers, Management Strategy, and Globalization / Jasmine Folz -- Language Norms and Debate in Triple Helix Organizations / Kathryn J. Hayes, J. Anneke Fitzgerald -- High-Tech Meets End-User / Marc Steen -- Professional Dimension of IT Specialists' Social Role / Agnieszka Postula -- Employee Turnover in the Business Process Outsourcing Industry in India / Aruna Ranganathan, Sarosh Kuruvilla -- Old and New Timings in a High-Tech Firm / Pauline Gleadle -- Trustworthiness as an Impression / Dominika Latusek -- Social Relations and Knowledge Management Theory and Practice / Marie-Josee Legault -- "We Make Magic Here" / Marisa D'Mello -- Outsourcing in High-Tech Corporations / Erik Pineiro, Peter Case -- Power and Ethics in IS Evaluation / Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba, Wendy Robson -- Critical Insights into NHS Information Systems Deployment / Rajneesh Chowdhury, Alan Nobbs -- Managerial Image, Social Capital, and Risk in a Czech Engineering Enterprise / Ben Passmore -- Self-Entrepreneurial Careers / Elisabeth K. Kelan -- Reflections on Organizing and Managing in Self-Managed Knowledge-Work Teams / James J. Keenan -- The Entrepreneurial Constitution of High-Tech Work Environments / Maria Aggestam -- Identifying Flexibilities / Marja-Liisa Trux -- Disciplining Innovation? Mobile Information Artefacts in a Telco Innovation Center / Chris Russell.

Abstract
This book studies this issue thoroughly from an international, comparative, cross-cultural perspective, presenting research on management practices in American, European, Asian and Middle-Eastern high-tech companies, with particular focus on fieldwork-driven, but reflective, contributions.

Subject Term
High technology industries -- Management.
 
Information technology -- Management.
 
Knowledge workers.

Added Author
Jemielniak, Dariusz.
 
Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy.

Added Corporate Author
IGI Global.

Electronic Access
Chapter PDFs via platform: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-59904-564-1


LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryE-Book2261726-1001HD62.37 .M353 2008EIGI Global