TY - BOOK AU - Constantinides,Panos ED - IGI eBooks. ED - IGI Global. TI - Perspectives and implications for the development of information infrastructures SN - 9781466616233 (ebook) AV - T58.5 .C667 2012e U1 - 384.3/2 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Hershey, Pa. PB - IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA) KW - Information technology KW - Information networks KW - Information superhighway KW - Challenges in information infrastructures KW - Commons perspective KW - Development of information infrastructures KW - Integrated, standardized cities KW - IT governance KW - IT research and theory KW - Knowledge management KW - Longitudinal research KW - Infrastructure ideal KW - Urban planning KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Introduction: historical review of infrastructure development -- 2. Perspectives on information infrastructures -- 3. A commons perspective to understanding the development of information infrastructures -- 4. The development of a regional health information infrastructure in Greece -- 5. The development of the English national health information infrastructure -- 6. Challenges to the development of information infrastructures: a synthesis of the findings -- 7. The governance of information infrastructures -- 8. New information infrastructure commons -- 9. The consequences of new information infrastructures -- 10. The role of the researcher in new information infrastructure research; Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers; Also available in print N2 - "This book offers fresh new perspectives on information infrastructure development, using and adapting theory that was initially developed to study natural resource common arrangements such as inshore fisheries, forests, irrigation systems, and pastures particularly reviewing complex problems and social dilemmas that often arise in information infrastructures"--Provided by publisher UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-4666-1622-6 ER -