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Inside the IMF = an ethnography of documents, technology, and organisational action /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Inside the IMF/ Richard H.R. Harper.
Reminder of title:	an ethnography of documents, technology, and organisational action /
remainder title:	Inside the International Monetary Fund
Author:	Harper, Richard,
Published:	San Diego :Academic Press, : c1998.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 305 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Organizational change - Problems, exercises, etc. - Management -
Online resource:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123258403
ISBN:	9780123258403 (electronic bk.)

Inside the IMF = an ethnography of documents, technology, and organisational action /
Harper, Richard,1960-

Inside the IMFan ethnography of documents, technology, and organisational action /[electronic resource] :Inside the International Monetary FundRichard H.R. Harper. - San Diego :Academic Press,c1998. - 1 online resource (xiii, 305 p.) :ill. - Computers and people series. - Computers and people series..

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-300) and index.

Introduction. What Is a Document? Designing Ethnography. A Sketch of the Fund. The Machinery of Policy Work. The Use of Information. Desk Officers. A Mission to Arcadia. The Use of a Staff Report. Conclusion. References.

In this book, Richard Harper uses the International Monetary Fund as a case study to show how thinking differently about IT systems can dramatically improve the manageability and accessibility of documents in organisations. The systems he considers uses search and retrieval applications, the use of hypertext documents and shared database applications like Lotus Notes. Key Features * Advises how to improve the work processes and computer systems of organizations * Considers such IT systems as search and retrieval applications, the use of hypertext documents, and shared database applications * Provides the first study to reveal the inside workings of the IMF * Utilizes sociological methods to understand the technology which underpins office and commercial life.

ISBN: 9780123258403 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Corporate Names:

260248
International Monetary Fund
--History.Subjects--Topical Terms:

100562
Organizational change
--Management--Problems, exercises, etc.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HG3881.5.I58 / H37 1998eb

Dewey Class. No.: 332.1/52

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