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Mobilizing the Information Society

Strategies for Growth and Opportunity

Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller

Mobliizing the Information Society comprehensively and critically examines the interaction between social, regulatory and market developments underlying the growing use of new technologies such as the personal computer and the Internet. Based upon empircal research by an international team, it offers insights needed to understand public policy, corporate strategy and individual choices taken in response to the deluge of new technological opportunities. Mobilizing the Information Society offers unique insights into the social, economic and political forces that are structuring the pathway to the information society, and their consequences for businesses and citizens in their everyday lives.