Book ID: CBB001180863

Information acumen: The understanding and use of knowledge in modern business (1994)

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Bud-Frierman, Lisa (Editor)


Routledge
Publication date: 1994
Language: English


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: x + 254 pp.; ill.

Description Contents: Information acumen / Lisa Bud-Frierman -- Evolving information use in firms, 1850-1920: Ideology and information techniques and technologies / JoAnne Yates -- The railway clearing house and Victorian data processing / Martin Campbell-Kelly -- The development of an informational infrastructure in Meiji Japan / Kaoru Sugihara -- American historians and the concept of the communications revolution / Richard R. John -- Product policies in two French computer firms: SEA and Bull (1948-64) / Pierre-E. Mounier-Kuhn -- Economic perspectives on business information / Mark Casson -- Official statistics and business: History, classifications, uses / Alain Desrosières -- Knowledge and infrastructure in international information management: Problems of classification and coding / Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star -- Information, power and the view from nowhere / Theodore M. Porter -- Information mythology: The world of/as information / Geoffrey Bowker. (From WorldCat)


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Chapter Yates, JoAnne (1994) Evolving information use in firms, 1850--1920: Ideology and information techniques and technologies. In: Information acumen: The understanding and use of knowledge in modern business. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Cortada, James W.
Yates, JoAnne
Castells, Manuel
Haigh, Thomas David
Hoffarth, Matthew J.
Kidder, Tracy
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Acta Baltica historiae et philosophiae scientiarum
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
International Journal of Technology, Policy, and Management
Journal of American History
Publishers
Oxford University Press
University of Pennsylvania
MIT Press
Random House
University of Minnesota Press
Concepts
Business and commerce
Information technology
Management techniques
Computers and computing
Technology
Labor and laborers
People
Luce, Robert Duncan
McClelland, David Clarence
Terman, Frederick Emmons
Maslow, Abraham Harold
Burrelle, Frank
Shanks, William Franklin Gore
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Estonia
Institutions
Du Pont Company
Stanford University
Borgward-Gruppe
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