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Business as Social Institution: Global Issues in IT

Business as Social Institution: Global Issues in IT

Mary Kirk
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 29
ISBN13: 9781599047867|ISBN10: 1599047861|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924942|EISBN13: 9781599047881
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-786-7.ch007
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Mary Kirk. "Business as Social Institution: Global Issues in IT." Gender and Information Technology: Moving Beyond Access to Co-Create Global Partnership, IGI Global, 2009, pp.164-192. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-786-7.ch007

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M. Kirk (2009). Business as Social Institution: Global Issues in IT. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-786-7.ch007

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Mary Kirk. "Business as Social Institution: Global Issues in IT." In Gender and Information Technology: Moving Beyond Access to Co-Create Global Partnership. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-786-7.ch007

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Abstract

The global IT business as a social institution reflects the same dominator values as other social institutions in the U.S. Since IT is a large and increasingly powerful industry worldwide, the question of what kinds of values the business purveys holds growing significance to our human community. Further, our ways of doing business are defined by the economic models that we adopt. The term “economics” can be used in two ways: (1) in reference to the academic discipline “that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services”; and (2) in popular reference to describe “economic systems, policies and practices” (Eisler, 2007, p. 11). In this chapter, I refer to the latter—economic systems, policies, and practices—as we explore the following topics: (1) the dominator economic values reflected in the global IT business; (2) the relationship between postcolonialism and U.S. participation in dominator global economic development; and (3) the rising social and political significance of economic development in India and China with specific relation to the IT industry. I end this chapter with an in-depth example of a global IT giant to demonstrate the effects of dominator economic decisions on the Holocaust during World War II.

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