Enterprise Mobility: Tiny Technology with Global Impact on Work

by Chadley Uekman, Carsten Saorensen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230236073
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/25/2011
Series:	Technology, Work and Globalization Series
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

CARSTEN SØRENSEN isSenior Lecturer in Information Systems and Innovation within the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.In 2001, Dr SØrensen initiated the mobility@lse research network, which aims at drawing together academics and practitioners with an interest in studying the profound changes to society, individuals and technologies in the mobile society of the 21st Century. Dr SØrensen has extensive EU and international research project experience andhas been actively engaged as consultant and executive educator with a range of organisationsworldwide. Heis Research Director of Laboratorium for Interaction Technology at University West, Sweden, which is actively engaged in large regional development projects funded by the European Union, Swedish funding agencies and local industries and public organisations. He is Senior Editor of the Information Systems Journal, Associate Editor for Journal of the AIS and the e-Service Journal. Dr SØrensen is on the editorial board for Information and Organization and a member of the Advisory Board for Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems.

Table of Contents

Mobility - New Challenges Technology - Carry and Connect Work - Question Traditions Interaction - Seek Fluidity Services - Amplify Collaboration Choices - Manage Mobility