The Digital Hand, Volume 2

How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-516587-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 656 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1127 g

The Digital Hand, Volume 2 is an historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media, and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is part of a sweeping three-volume description of how management in some forty industries embraced the computer and changed the American economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cortada, James W.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Ingenieurwissenschaftliches Knowhow
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Werkstoffkunde, Materialwissenschaft: Forschungsmethoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Industrialisierung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Role of Financial Industries in the U.S. Economy

- 2: Uses of Computing in the Banking Industry

- 3: Deployment of Digital and Telecommunications Applications in the Banking Industry

- 4: Business Patterns and Digital Applications in the Insurance Industry

- 5: Business Patterns and Digital Applications in the Brokerage Industry

- 6: Role of Telecommunications Industries in the U.S. Economy

- 7: Business Patterns and Digital Applications in the Telecommunication Industry

- 8: Role of Media and Entertainment Industries in the U.S. Economy

- 9: Uses of Computing in Print Media Industries: Book Publishing, Newspapers, Magazines

- 10: Digital Applications in Electronic Media Industries: Movies and Recorded Music

- 11: Digital Applications in Entertainment Industries: Video Games and Photography

- 12: Conclusions: Lessons Learned, Implications for Management

- Appendix A: Role and Use of Industries, Sectors, and Economic Models as Concepts for Understanding Business and Economic Activities

- Appendix B: How a Telephone Works and the Basics of Telecommunications and Networking

- Notes

- Bibliographic Essay

- Index