Rethinking the Conceptual Base for New Practical Applications in Information Value and Quality

Rethinking the Conceptual Base for New Practical Applications in Information Value and Quality

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Release Date: September, 2013|Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 345
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4562-2
ISBN13: 9781466645622|ISBN10: 1466645628|EISBN13: 9781466645639
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Information value and quality can be considered an essential factor to evaluate both conceptual and practical contributions in organizational, technical, and scientific tasks and projects. It is important to effectively observe and implement these concepts in real organizational plans and efforts.

Rethinking the Conceptual Base for New Practical Applications in Information Value and Quality discusses the re-evaluation of the conceptual base of information value and quality found in different forms of media; and how these concepts can be analyzed in real applications and business scenarios. This book is a vital reference source for scholars, practitioners, IT specialists, and students interested in information and knowledge management.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Business Models
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Measurements and Planning
  • Information Quality and Value
  • Information Technology Governance
  • Strategic Planning
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A thought-provoking, interesting, inspiring and empowering reference for a wide variety of audiences, including theorists, policymakers, researchers, managers, professors and students.

– Alireza Isfandyari Moghaddam, The Electronic Library, Emerald, 32(6)
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George Leal Jamil is a professor of FUMEC University and several post-graduation courses from Minas Gerais, Brazil. He has a PhD in Information Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), master degree in Computer Science (UFMG) and his graduate area was Electric Engineering (UFMG) and is actually coursing a post-doctorate program at FLUP – Communication School at University of Porto, Portugal. He wrote 14 books in the information technology and strategic management areas, with another 8 works in books as co-author and Editor. Yearly, he manages the doctoral consortium of the International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) as one of his main activities. His main research interests are information systems management, strategy, knowledge management, software engineering, marketing and IT adoption in business contexts.
Armando Malheiro da Silva in an associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (Portugal) and is member of the research centre CETAC.MEDIA (Centre of Studies in Technologies and Communication Sciences). He has a degree in Philosophy and another in History and obtained the diploma of the Librarian-Archivist Course from the University of Coimbra. His PhD is in Contemporary History from the University of Minho. He shares his research through some areas such as Information Science, Mith Analysis, political and ideological History of Portugal in the 19th-20th centuries, Family history and Local studies. He is author of several books and articles and recently conducted a research project on Information Literacy of university students.
Fernanda Ribeiro (born 1958) is an associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto (Portugal) and is member of the research centre CETAC.MEDIA (Centre of Studies in Technologies and Communication Sciences). Previously she worked as an archivist at the Municipal Archives of Porto. She got a degree in History and obtained the diploma of the Librarian-Archivist Course from the University of Coimbra. Her PhD in Information Science is from University of Porto with a dissertation entitled The Access to Information in Archives. During the last 25 years she devoted her academic research to access and retrieval of information in archives, subject indexing, classification, information evaluation, theory and methodology of Information Science as well as LIS professional training. She is co-author of a Portuguese manual of Archival Science under the title Arquivística: teoria e prática de uma Ciência da Informação (1999), which got a prize from the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists (BAD) and of another book entitled Das "Ciências" Documentais à Ciência da Informação: ensaio epistemológico para um novo modelo curricular (2002).
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