TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cortada,James W.
ED  - IEEE Computer Society.
ED  - Wiley InterScience (Online service)
TI  - How societies embrace information technology: lessons for management and the rest of us 
SN  - 9780470643938
AV  - HM851 .C675 2009
U1  - 303.4833 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J., Los Alamitos, CA
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, IEEE Computer Society
KW  - Information society
KW  - Internet
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Information technology
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - Information Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; How Societies Embrace Information Technology; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Introducing the Big Picture; 2 How Computers Spread Around the World So Fast; 3 How Governments Leverage Information Technologies to Improve Their National Economies; 4 How Managers and Officials Decide What Technology to Use; 5 Adding Up the Results So Far: Do We Now Live in the Information Age?; 6 An Expanding Role for Scientists and Engineers; 7 Looking Down the Road into the Twenty-First Century; 8 Keeping Up: Bibliographic Essay; Index
N2  - This book discusses how computers are shaping contemporary society, with a tight focus on the role of corporations and governments. It is aimed at government policymakers interested in economic development and at private-sector managers who routinely make decisions to acquire and use information technology, now a worldwide expenditure of over
ER  -