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Johns Hopkins University Press Structuring the Information Age
Book SynopsisIn addition, this detailed industry case study helps explain information technology's so-called productivity paradox, showing that firms took roughly two decades to achieve the initial computerization and process integration that the industry set as objectives in the 1950s.Trade ReviewStructuring the Information Age makes educating reading and is an important contribution to our understanding of the connection between past and present in the transformation of socio-economic systems. -- Asaf Darr Administrative Science Quarterly 2006 Brilliant volume... Yate's study of the adaptation of information-processing resources in insurance has greatly widened the horizons of our understanding of the dynamics of technological development in a business setting. Business History Review 2006 Yates has contributed another original study to the history of information technology. -- Kenneth Lipartito Technology and Culture 2006 A welcome addition to a growing body of literature on the history of the use of computers by businesses, and a good model for other scholars to use. -- James W. Cortada American Historical Review 2006 Structuring the Information Age examines the history of information technology in the United States by shifting focus away from the producers of that technology and toward a kind of end user that has heretofore received little attention-large-scale corporations, which easily rank among the leading information-technology (it) consumers. -- Timothy Alborn Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2007 This timely and important work is the first scholarly history devoted to the use of information technology within a single American industry. -- Thomas Haigh EH.Net 2007 This valuable addition to the historiography of the computer looks at new technologies from a user's viewpoint. Here the user is the life insurance business, which is an appropriate choice because it has always been an information-intense business. IEEE History Center Newsletter 2007 Structuring the Information Age will interest two types of readers: those who are concerned with the development, adoption, and impact of technology and those who are concerned with the growth, strategies, and economic influence of business organizations. -- Daphne A. Jameson Journal of Business and Technical Communication 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Life Insurance in the Tabulator Era1. Insurance at the Turn of the Twentieth Century2. First Impressions of Tabulating, 1890–19103. The Push toward Printing, 1910–19244. Insurance Associations and the Flowering of the Tabulator EraPart II: Life Insurance Enters the Computer Era5. Early Engagement between Insurance and Computing6. Insurance Adoption and Use of Early Computers7. Incremental Migration during the 1960s and 1970s8. Case Studies in Insurance Computing: New England Mutual Life and Aetna LifeConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£22.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Structuring the Information Age
Book SynopsisIn addition, this detailed industry case study helps explain information technology's so-called productivity paradox, showing that firms took roughly two decades to achieve the initial computerization and process integration that the industry set as objectives in the 1950s.Trade ReviewStructuring the Information Age makes educating reading and is an important contribution to our understanding of the connection between past and present in the transformation of socio-economic systems. -- Asaf Darr Administrative Science Quarterly 2006 Brilliant volume... Yate's study of the adaptation of information-processing resources in insurance has greatly widened the horizons of our understanding of the dynamics of technological development in a business setting. Business History Review 2006 Yates has contributed another original study to the history of information technology. -- Kenneth Lipartito Technology and Culture 2006 A welcome addition to a growing body of literature on the history of the use of computers by businesses, and a good model for other scholars to use. -- James W. Cortada American Historical Review 2006 Structuring the Information Age examines the history of information technology in the United States by shifting focus away from the producers of that technology and toward a kind of end user that has heretofore received little attention-large-scale corporations, which easily rank among the leading information-technology (it) consumers. -- Timothy Alborn Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2007 This timely and important work is the first scholarly history devoted to the use of information technology within a single American industry. -- Thomas Haigh EH.Net 2007 This valuable addition to the historiography of the computer looks at new technologies from a user's viewpoint. Here the user is the life insurance business, which is an appropriate choice because it has always been an information-intense business. IEEE History Center Newsletter 2007 Structuring the Information Age will interest two types of readers: those who are concerned with the development, adoption, and impact of technology and those who are concerned with the growth, strategies, and economic influence of business organizations. -- Daphne A. Jameson Journal of Business and Technical Communication 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Life Insurance in the Tabulator Era1. Insurance at the Turn of the Twentieth Century2. First Impressions of Tabulating, 1890–19103. The Push toward Printing, 1910–19244. Insurance Associations and the Flowering of the Tabulator EraPart II: Life Insurance Enters the Computer Era5. Early Engagement between Insurance and Computing6. Insurance Adoption and Use of Early Computers7. Incremental Migration during the 1960s and 1970s8. Case Studies in Insurance Computing: New England Mutual Life and Aetna LifeConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£51.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Control through Communication
Book SynopsisThe recipient of the Society of American Archivists' Waldo Gifford Leland Prize and the Association for Business Communication's Alpha Kappa Psi Award for Distinguished Publication on Business Communication, Yates discusses how modern managerial systems evolved within the American business system.Trade Review[This book's] timeliness is remarkable. Now that the Western system of responsible (that is, profit-based) production has emerged as the victor over command economies, the secrets of how we did it may replace foreign relations as 'topic A' at conferences, and historians who continue to reject 'material civilization' as unworthy of genuine scholars will do so at their peril. American Historical Review A superb historical analysis of the philosophical and technological forces that led to the development of communication genres and processes in the modern American corporation. Journal of Business CommunicationTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Transformation of Internal Communication1. material Methods and the Fuctions of Internal Communication2. Communication Technology and the Growth of Internal Communication3. Genres of Internal Communication4. The Illinois Central before 1887: Communication for Compliance and Efficiency7. Du Pont's First Century: Conservatism in Family and Firm8. Du Pont, 1902-1920: Radical Change from a New GenerationConclusionNotesA Note on Archival SourcesIndex
£25.20
Taylor & Francis Ltd The International Organization for Standardization ISO Global Governance Through Voluntary Consensus Global Institutions
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Johns Hopkins University Press Engineering Rules
Book SynopsisThe first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting. Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the internet. In Engineering Rules, JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy trace the standard-setting system's evolution through time, revealing a process with an astonishingly pervasive, if rarely noticed, impact on all of our lives. This type of standard setting was established in the 1880s, when engineers aimed to prove their status as professionals by creating useful standards that would be widely adopted by manufacturers while satisfying corporate customers. Yates and Murphy explain how these engineers' processes provided a timely way to set desiraTrade ReviewEvery standards professional should own this book. Bottom line—an A+.—Standards EngineeringBy recounting the story of standardization, Yates and Murphy demonstrate how human and organizational actions slowly sediment into institutions that melt into the background of our lives.—Administrative Science QuarterlyYates and Murphy provide an engaging narrative about the people and processes responsible for making the technologies we have today work with one another—New Books NetworkThe book is an extraordinarily detailed history of the movement from national to international standards creation and use. It introduces as its heroes . . . a series of men of rectitude and accomplishment who selflessly built the practice.—Yale Journal on RegulationA comprehensive, readable account of private standard setting that should interest legal scholars, lawyers, and law students. Yates and Murphy have provided a great service with their illuminating history of the private world of standard setting.—The Regulatory ReviewThis book is history at its finest. It is not only a technical and business history of engineering standards but also a deeply researched social history of communities of standardizers. It is also elegantly written—a testament to Yates's and Murphy's research and writing skills. Historians of capitalism and technology will find it required reading, but this book also stands a fair chance of engaging a mass readership.—Business History ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronymsIntroductionPart I. The First Wave1. Engineering Professionalization and Private Standard Setting for Industry before 19002. Organizing Private Standard Setting within and across Borders, 1900 to World War I3. A Community and a Movement, World War I to the Great DepressionPart II. The Second Wave4. Decline and Revival of the Movement, the 1930s to the 1950s5. Standards for a Global Market, the 1960s to the 1980s6. US Participation in International RFI/EMC Standardization, World War II to the 1980sPart III. The Third Wave7. Computer Networking Ushers in a New Era in Standard Setting, 1980s to 2000s8. Development of the W3C WebCrypto API Standard, 2012 to 20179. Voluntary Standards for Quality Management and Social Responsibility since the 1980s ConclusionEssay on Primary SourcesNotesIndex
£47.18
Johns Hopkins University Press Engineering Rules
Book SynopsisThe first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting. Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the internet. In Engineering Rules, JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy trace the standard-setting system's evolution through time, revealing a process with an astonishingly pervasive, if rarely noticed, impact on all of our lives. This type of standard setting was established in the 1880s, when engineers aimed to prove their status as professionals by creating useful standards that would be widely adopted by manufacturers while satisfying corporate customers. Yates and Murphy explain how these engineers' processes provided a timely way to set desiraTrade ReviewEvery standards professional should own this book. Bottom line—an A+.—Standards EngineeringBy recounting the story of standardization, Yates and Murphy demonstrate how human and organizational actions slowly sediment into institutions that melt into the background of our lives.—Administrative Science QuarterlyYates and Murphy provide an engaging narrative about the people and processes responsible for making the technologies we have today work with one another—New Books NetworkThe book is an extraordinarily detailed history of the movement from national to international standards creation and use. It introduces as its heroes . . . a series of men of rectitude and accomplishment who selflessly built the practice.—Yale Journal on RegulationA comprehensive, readable account of private standard setting that should interest legal scholars, lawyers, and law students. Yates and Murphy have provided a great service with their illuminating history of the private world of standard setting.—The Regulatory ReviewThis book is history at its finest. It is not only a technical and business history of engineering standards but also a deeply researched social history of communities of standardizers. It is also elegantly written—a testament to Yates's and Murphy's research and writing skills. Historians of capitalism and technology will find it required reading, but this book also stands a fair chance of engaging a mass readership.—Business History ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronymsIntroductionPart I. The First Wave1. Engineering Professionalization and Private Standard Setting for Industry before 19002. Organizing Private Standard Setting within and across Borders, 1900 to World War I3. A Community and a Movement, World War I to the Great DepressionPart II. The Second Wave4. Decline and Revival of the Movement, the 1930s to the 1950s5. Standards for a Global Market, the 1960s to the 1980s6. US Participation in International RFI/EMC Standardization, World War II to the 1980sPart III. The Third Wave7. Computer Networking Ushers in a New Era in Standard Setting, 1980s to 2000s8. Development of the W3C WebCrypto API Standard, 2012 to 20179. Voluntary Standards for Quality Management and Social Responsibility since the 1980s ConclusionEssay on Primary SourcesNotesIndex
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