Abstract
The age of industrialized work is ending (Rifkin 2004). Various reasons have come together impacting the changing nature of work such as high performance expectations (Burke and Cooper 2006), demographic and cultural changes (Cox and Blake 1991), globalization and international competition (Cartwright and Holmes 2006), and economic pressure (Guevara and Ord 1996). Information and communication technology (ICT) is underpinning all of these reasons of transformation, because ICT provides the technological backbone for new organizational structures and new ways of working enabling above reasons (Heerwagen et al. 2010; Landry et al. 2005; Robey and Sahay 1996; Wallace 2004; Yates and Van Maanen 2001).
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This acronym summarizes recent trends of ICT applications: Cloud, Analytics, Social, Mobile, and Internet of Things.
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This work was partially supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2012S1A3A2033474).
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Lee, J. (2016). Impact of ICT on Work: Introduction. In: Lee, J. (eds) The Impact of ICT on Work. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-612-6_1
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