Society and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367232510 ISBN 13: 9780367232511

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book offers broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies (ICT) impact social development and contribute to social welfare. Its aim is to show how new technological solutions may contribute to society’s welfare by encouraging new ‘socially responsible’ initiatives and practices as the broad adoption of new technologies becomes an integral component of organizations, and of the overall economy.

Society and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges is designed to provide deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on ICT as socially responsible technologies. More specifically, it puts special focus on examining the following:

• how channels of ICT impact on social progress, environmental sustainability and instability
• the role of ICT in creating social networks, with positive and negative consequences of networking
• how ICT encourages education, skills development, institutional development, etc.
• the ethical aspects of technological progress, and
• technology management for social corporate responsibility.

The book is written primarily for scholars and academic professionals from a wide variety of disciplines that are addressing issues of economic development and growth, social development, and the role of technology progress in broadly defined socioeconomic progress. It is also an invaluable source of knowledge for graduate and postgraduate students, particularly within economic and social development, information and technology, worldwide studies, social policy or comparative economics.

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About the Author

Ewa Lechman is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. Since 2017 she has been Vice-Dean for Development and a PhD Programme Director.

Magdalena Popowska is a researcher and lecturer of Organization Science and Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367232510
• ISBN 13: 9780367232511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Lechman Ewa, Popowska Magdalena