Globalization, technology and competition : the fusion of computers and telecommunications in the 1990s / Edited by Stephen P. Bradley, Jerry A. Hausman, Richard L. Nolan.

I. Globalization and technology, 3 -- 1. Global competition and technology / Stephen P. Bradley, Jerry A. Hausman, and Richard L. Nolan, 3 -- II. Organizational structures for global strategies, 33 -- 2. How will information technology reshape organizations? Computers as coordination technology / Thomas W. Malone and John F. Rockart, 37 -- 3. A framework for the design of the emerging global organizational structure / Robert G. Eccles and Richard L. Nolan, 57 -- 4. On the design of global information systems / Benn R. Konsynski and Jahangir Karimi, 81 -- III. Creating and restructuring industries, 109 -- 5. The role of it networking in sustaining competitive advantage / Stephen P. Bradley, 113 -- 6. Telecommunications and the restructuring of the securities markets / George A. Hayter, 143 -- 7. The coordination of global manufacturing / Ramchandran Jaikumar and David M. Upton, 169 -- 8. Quick response in retail/manufacturing channels / Janice h. Hammond, 185 -- IV. Strategic response to structural change, 215 -- 9. Information technology and the boundary of the firm: who Wins, who loses, who has to change / Eric K. Clemons, 219 -- 10. Being global and the global opportunity / Pierre Hassler, 243 -- 11. Saturn-the making of the modern corporation / Richard G. Lefauve and Arnoldo C. Hax, 257 -- 12. Information technology and the global virtual corporation / David B. Miller, Eric K. Clemons, and Michael C. Row, 283 -- V. Competing with technology, 309 -- 13. The bell operating companies and AT&T venture abroad while British telecom and others come to the united states / Jerry A. Hausman, 313 -- 14. Seven technologies to watch in globalization / Alan Hald and Benn R. Konsynski, 335 -- 15. Building the broadband society / William Marx, Jr., 359 -- About the contributors, 371 -- Index, 381.