Leapfrogging an IT Sector

2011 ◽  
pp. 2396-2399
Author(s):  
Eileen M. Trauth
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Newly Industrializing Countries ◽  
Force Transformation ◽  
Information Sector ◽  
Irish Case ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Development And Management

Accompanying the global spread of the post-industrial society (Bell, 1973) are nations who see economic opportunity deriving from the development of an information economy to support it (Porat, 1977). But while advanced industrialized nations moved gradually from industrial to post-industrial work over a period of decades, newly industrializing countries are “leapfrogging” directly from agrarian to informationintensive work in a matter of years. Given this rapid labor force transformation, a critical consideration in the development of a global information sector is the development and management of information technology (IT) workers. Ireland is an appropriate country for examination of this leapfrog phenomenon because it was one of the earliest examples of this phenomenon, having developed its information sector rapidly and successfully through inward investment by multinational firms during the 1970s to the 1990s. Thus, this case offers the point of view of both an advanced industrialized or “first wave” country and of a “second wave” country that is taking an alternate path into the information economy by rapidly moving directly from an agrarian or partially-developed industrial economy into an information economy. Since Ireland was one of the earliest examples of “leapfrogging”, the Irish case has lessons applicable to other contexts (Trauth, 2000).

Learnability

2005 ◽  
pp. 1803-1806
Author(s):  
Philip Duchastel
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Newly Industrializing Countries ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
Force Transformation ◽  
Intensive Work ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Development And Management

Accompanying the global spread of the post-industrial society (Bell, 1973) are nations who see economic opportunity deriving from the development of an information economy to support it (Porat, 1977). But while advanced industrialized nations moved gradually from industrial to post-industrial work over a period of decades, newly industrializing countries are “leapfrogging” directly from agrarian to information-intensive work in a matter of years. Given this rapid labor force transformation, a critical consideration in the development of a global information sector is the development and management of information technology (IT) workers.

scholarly journals INFORMATION ECONOMY: A NEW PARADIGM FOR ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Inna KOTKALOVA-LYTVYN
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Economic Paradigm ◽  
Evolutionary Changes ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Economic Outlook

The article investigates essence and content of the information economy, which, at the present stage of the global ecosystem is changing traditional narratives of economic theory. Article studies influence of post-industrial society to the origin of the information economy paradigm statements and its ecosystem. The author systematized conceptual provisions of foreign and domestic scientists on the essence and content of the information economy in the context of the evolution of development of this economic paradigm (starting from theory’s inception in 60s of the twentieth century up to modern theoretical and methodological developments). Based on research, the author concluded that the information economy is not just post-industrial wave of development. It is a separate, independent paradigm of world economic outlook, which is the result of evolutionary changes in the technological, economic, political and social arrangement on the general international level.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-218
Author(s):  
Stefan J. Link
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Henry Ford ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Post Industrial

This concluding chapter explains that American-style postwar “Fordism” was only one pattern in the mottled global legacy left behind by Henry Ford. It was not the least ideological effect of American hegemony that in the 1960s modernization theory could universalize this unique historical arrangement — what can be called “high mass-consumption” — as the target of successful development itself. Responding to the crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, social scientists added a next phase: “Post-Fordism” or “post-industrial society” signaled deindustrialization to some and the promise of a “service and information economy” to others. What united these constructs was a thinking in sequential stages, a preoccupation with national patterns of development, and a theory of causation centered on self-generating forces. It has become clear that cycles of industrialization and deindustrialization are inseparable from concerted efforts to restructure the global division of labor, that productive dual-use technologies are fiercely contested by states and corporations alike, that investment and disinvestment cannot be dislodged from contests over the terms of globalization, and that capital has no autonomous power outside of the designs and struggles of political actors.

Introduction

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Mutula
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Information Economics ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Post Industrial

The ‘Digital economy’ is sometimes used synonymously with ‘information society’, which emerged back in the 1960s to describe a futuristic society that is highly dependent on information (Bridges.org, 2001; Computer Systems Policy Projects, 2000). Martin (1997:87) further associates the concept with ‘information economics’ by defining it as a society in which there is a growing rate in the production, distribution and use of information. The ‘Digital economy’, as term and concept, has been used in this book in keeping with ‘information society’ as espoused by Schienstock et al. (1999), who view it from an interdisciplinary perspective to describe: An information economy;A post-industrial society; The end of the industrial labour society; A knowledge society; An ‘informatized’ industrial society; and A learning society.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY MODERNIZATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
А.V. Oposhnyansky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
The Future ◽  
Post Industrial

The article is devoted to the problem of modernization of the Russian society, which is central from a practical and theoretical point of view for the existence of the Russian state. It is connected with the nature of the culture of Russian civilization, with the sociocultural type of personality and society that requires its reformatting. These are both traditional mechanisms involved in the reproduction of Russian society and innovative development factors. The focus is on the modern civilizational Challenge, which has stretched over several decades. Even such a grandiose transformation as the deconstruction of the USSR did not lead to the Answer to the Challenge. A closed, authoritarian type of Russian society with a two-dimensional traditional cultural code can be modernized only by using an external factor as a transformation lever. The article describes the specifics of Russian civilization in connection with the peculiarities of modernization at the stage of transition to post-industrial society. This transition included a crisis of a two-dimensional sociocultural code reflected in Soviet ideology and social practice, overcoming the closure of the country, and using the social and technological innovations of the West. The two-dimensional code did not provide restructuring and transition to post-industrial civilization by borrowing technological and social innovation. Modern ontology of sociality is constructed by synergy of media interactions. Media is a word and deed that designs and formats social reality. At present, the humanities can be anthropologically effective if they turn into media design that designs and formats social reality. The creators of social and anthropological design are social energy actors — scientists, proactive subcultures. The traditional national sociocode is gradually transformed under the influence of globalization, adapted to it, or aggressively extremist enters the fight against postmodernization (fundamentalist extremism). The postmodernization of the Russian society includes its diversification, also manifests itself in a multiplicity of intents into the future. The two-dimensional code of negative identity is overcome, according to the laws of synergy, through chaos and new sociality will be formed either spontaneously or by the method of managed chaos, if domestic managers, who still keep the Russian society in a state of sluggish stagnation, are ripe for it. However, the principle of bifurcation reminds us that the future is ambiguous. Without mastering the art of managed chaos, one cannot take a productive step in social governance and development.

scholarly journals BUSINESS ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT IN UKRAINE UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 282-290
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Rozhelyuk ◽  
Vita Semanyuk ◽  
Taras Burdeniuk
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Information Costs ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Internet Economy ◽  
Innovation Economy ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the paper is the aggregation of theoretical, organizational, and methodological concepts of the information economy from the position of its impact on accounting system at processing plants to prove the directions of improvement of its components according to the requirements of modern management. Methodology. The research of the concept of “information” gave the possibility to define the absence of scientific view on this issue. We suggest that talking about information we should understand the processed data including the system of accounting, which reduce the uncertainty of users. Information for management has not yet been evaluated and not investigated the impact of information costs on the efficiency of making decisions. However, the calculation of costs for information services, which are also provided by the accounting system, is an important factor given the ability to optimize the preparation of information. To characterize the current stage of the development of the economy, the next concepts as “information economy”, “economy of knowledge”, “Internet-economy”, “post-industrial economy” and “innovation economy” have been compared. The investigation gave the possibility to define that information and post-industrial economy are synonyms – the concept “post-industrial economy” characterizes the same stage of the development but from the retrospective point of view. Such concepts as “knowledge economy”, “Internet economy”, and “innovation economy” are components of the information economy, which form its characteristic features. Nowadays, information plays an important role for a manager and influences the activity of an enterprise. The experience of successful companies shows that their achievements depend on the well-organized information system. Practical implications. Thus, the considerable part of information (78.5%) provided for managers belongs to business accounting that intensifies its role at an enterprise in the information economy. Value/originality. It could not be overestimated the meaning of full and true information about the financial state and the results of the activity of an enterprise to solve current and prospective financial and economic problems.

scholarly journals THE EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIAL AND LABOUR RELATIONS: CON- CEPTUAL PROVISIONS

1970 ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
N.Yu. Anisimova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Relations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Industrial And Labor Relations ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

The article considers various theoretical and methodological concepts of the evolution of industrial and labor relations as the basis for the socio-economic development of society. From the point of view of the history of industrial revolutions, theories of socio-economic formations and information (post-industrial) society, the essential characteristics of industrial and labor relations and the stages of their transformation were revealed. It is shown that the systematic formation of industrial and labor relations began in close relationship with social and labor relations during the period of industrialization of the economy. It is justified that, most conceptually, the further periodization of their development is represented by a civilizational approach, according to which the change of paradigms is carried out not at the expense of social, but at the expense of scientific and technical revolutions. The global digitalization of labor processes has led to the individualization of industrial and labor relations, their intellectualization, and the transition to remote forms of personnel work. The contradictions of the conceptual provisions of industrial and labor relations revealed during the study lead to the need for further theoretical and methodological justification of their internal content.

Leapfrogging an IT Labor Force

2002 ◽  
pp. 221-243
Author(s):  
Eileen M. Trauth
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Newly Industrializing Countries ◽  
Information Sector ◽  
It Workers ◽  
Resource Issue

Throughout the world countries recognizing the economic benefits of IT are rapidly developing information sectors. Advanced industrialized nations have been moving gradually from industrial to post-industrial work while newly industrializing nations are leapfrogging directly from agrarian to information-intensive work. At the close of the twentieth century some interesting tensions result from these two types of nations moving in the same direction. An important issue for both advanced industrialized countries and newly industrializing nations is the human resource issue. Managers at multinational firms as well as policy makers in newly industrializing countries recognize the need for developing qualified IT personnel. The Irish IT sector provides a valuable setting for studying human resource issues associated with the rapid development of an information sector because it affords the opportunity to explore both the multinational and the indigenous viewpoints. Two key human resource issues for the global IT sector are explored in this paper: ensuring a supply of qualified IT workers in the host country and managing IT workers in a cross-cultural work environment. This paper is based upon an ethnographic study of the information sector in Ireland. The issues that are raised represent the experiences of American and Irish managers, Irish policy makers and Irish IT workers.

scholarly journals Design philosophy: modern aspects of integrated packaging design

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-154
Author(s):  
G.I. Fazylzianova ◽  
◽  
S.A. Solovieva ◽  
V.N. Shigorina ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Products ◽  
Consumer Attitudes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Packaging Design ◽  
Psychological Need ◽  
A Value ◽  
Post Industrial

Analyzed scientific articles on the design of packaging for dairy products from the point of view of the philosophy of the needs of the post-industrial society. The criteria for changing the logo in the framework of the concept of «consumer-oriented design» in connection with the factors of the development of the dairy industry have been identified. The specifics of packaging design for dairy products have been identified using the example of rebranding of large manufacturing companies. It has been proven that changing consumer attitudes based on a value that satisfies a psychological need expands the boundaries of the professional activity of packaging designers.

scholarly journals DANIEL BELL ABOUT THE «FLUIDITY» OF AUTHORITIES IN THE AGE OF POSTINDUSTRIALISM

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Hanna Sashchuk
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
The People ◽  
New Information ◽  
Political Units ◽  
High Level ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact

The article analyze the position of one of the most respected researchers of post-industrialism, Daniel Bell, on the impact of new information technologies on “politics-power” relations. The following two features of the influence of information and knowledge on the political sphere of public life are clarified: “Situs as Political Units» and «Rightful Meritocracy.” According to D. Bell, there are three analyzed current models of power: 1) the previous model of power, which is based on property, and besides it is inherited; 2) a model of government, the basis of which is knowledge acquired through education; and 3) a model of power, the source of which is a political office obtained through an organizational apparatus. The concept of the rightful meritocracy of D. Bell was analyzed, it’s meaning in the idea that the power belong to the most gifted. He believed that a capitalist society іs gradually transforming into a society in which gifted people will be promoted to senior positions, including political. He defined a certain “merit formula”: “Intelligence + Achievements = Merit”. D. Bell argued, that people with such merits should take up leadership positions in politics, business, science and other activities. In post-industrial society, the principle of “achievement” is relevant, there is a thought, that power is achieved through the personal virtues of the people, their high level of education and skills. In such society, there are almost no senior positions available to people without qualifications. In conclusion, we can say that the politician, from the point of view of D. Bell, is a highly skilled specialist which have the necessary management skills. Post-industrial society implies the emergence of a new intellectual class, whose representatives can at political level act as consultants, experts or technocrats.

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