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ANY attempt to redirect Information Technology (IT) to serve social needs must recognize that fundamentally it is an organizational process. On the one hand, organizations provide an essential context for the themes with which this book is concerned. Many of the societal implications, such as workforce displacement and deskilling or the invasion and protection of privacy of citizens,[1] flow from the choices made by organizational decision makers about how and why they implement IT systems.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institut d’Informatique, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

    Jacques Berleur

  2. Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Andrew Clement

  3. British Computer Society, London, UK

    Richard Sizer

  4. London Business School, London, UK

    Diane Whitehouse

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Clement, A. (1990). Computers and Organizations. In: Berleur, J., Clement, A., Sizer, R., Whitehouse, D. (eds) The Information Society: Evolving Landscapes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4328-9_18

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