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Essentials of management information systems : transforming business and management / Kenneth Craig Laudon and Jane Price Laudon.

By: Laudon, Kenneth C, 1944- [author].
Contributor(s): Laudon, Jane P. (Jane Price) [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. ; London : Prentice Hall, [1999]Edition: Third edition.Description: xxii, 480 pages, various pagings : color illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0130115061 (paperback).Subject(s): Management information systemsDDC classification: 658.4038011
Contents:
Part One: Organizations, management and the network revolution -- The information systems revolution: Transforming business and management -- The strategic role of information systems -- Information systems, organizations and management -- Ethical and social impact of information systems -- Part Two: Technical foundations of information systems -- Computers and information processing -- Information systems software -- Managing data resources -- Part Three: Communications, networks and the internet -- Telecommunications and networks -- The internet: Electronic commerce and electronic business -- Part Four: Building information systems: Contemporary approaches -- Redesigning the organization with information systems -- Approaches to systems-building -- Part Five: Management and organizational support systems -- Managing knowledge -- Enhancing management decision making -- Part Six: Managing information systems -- Information systems security and control -- Managing international information systems.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Aiming to prepare students for the changing demands of using information systems as managers, this work emphasizes the use of the Internet and related technologies in electronic commerce, electronic business and the digital integration of the firm from the warehouse to the executive suite.

Previous ed.: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages R1-R22) and indexes.

Part One: Organizations, management and the network revolution -- The information systems revolution: Transforming business and management -- The strategic role of information systems -- Information systems, organizations and management -- Ethical and social impact of information systems -- Part Two: Technical foundations of information systems -- Computers and information processing -- Information systems software -- Managing data resources -- Part Three: Communications, networks and the internet -- Telecommunications and networks -- The internet: Electronic commerce and electronic business -- Part Four: Building information systems: Contemporary approaches -- Redesigning the organization with information systems -- Approaches to systems-building -- Part Five: Management and organizational support systems -- Managing knowledge -- Enhancing management decision making -- Part Six: Managing information systems -- Information systems security and control -- Managing international information systems.