Includes index.

Contents: Organizations, management, and the network revolution: The Information systems revolution: transforming business and management -- The Strategic role of information systems -- Information systems, organization, and management -- Ethical and social impact of information systems -- Technical foundations of information systems: Computers and information processing -- Information systems software -- Managing data resources -- Communications, networks, and the internet: Telecommunications and networks -- The Internet: electronic commerce and electronic business -- Building information systems: contemporary approaches: Redesigning the organization with information systems -- Approaches to system-building -- Management and organizational support systems: Managing knowledge -- Enhancing management decision making -- Managing information systems: Information systems security and control -- Managing international information systems -- International case studies -- Appendix A: Business process redesign project.