By Georgios Doukidis, Nikolaos Mylonopoulos, Nancy Pouloudi
The arrival of the data Society is marked via the explosive penetration of data applied sciences in all elements of existence and by way of a similar basic transformation in each type of the association. Researchers, company humans and coverage makers have famous the significance of addressing technological, fiscal and social affects in conjunction. for instance, the increase and fall of the dot-com hype depended much at the energy of the company version, at the technological services on hand to agencies and at the readiness of the society and economic system at huge maintain a brand new breed of commercial job. notwithstanding, it truly is notoriously tricky to check the cross-impacts of social, monetary and technological points of the data Society. this sort of paintings calls for multidisciplinary paintings and collaboration on a variety of talents. Social and monetary Transformation within the electronic period addresses this problem via assembling the newest considering prime researchers and coverage makers. The booklet covers all key topic parts of the data Society and offers cutting edge company versions, case reports, normative theories and social factors.
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It must include all those with some responsibility for IT systems. Johnson (2000) suggests responsibility for technology must start with those who created it, but that users of the technology have a shared responsibility for the consequences. This remains true for information technology. However, there is a wider group of people responsible for IT systems. These can be subdivided into people who commission the systems, people who develop the systems, people who operate the systems, people who use the systems, people who make overall policies under which the systems are developed and operated, and people who actively promote the systems.
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Strive to achieve benefits by working in partnership with other groups and organizations. The five cases that follow illustrate typical practice and policy across a broad range of organizations. The italicized text in each case contains extracts from the organization's policy documents. Policy Case 1. Lever Brothers Limited (see Zairi, 2000) Lever Brothers is a long-established chemical manufacturer in the north of England. The emphasis of their social responsibility approach is on safety, the environment, and employee welfare.