Techlash The Future of the Socially Responsible Tech Organization

• Main Author: Mitroff, Ian I. (auth)
• Other Authors: Storesund, Rune (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2020
• Series: Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership
• Subjects: Business strategy; Business ethics & social responsibility; Reliability engineering; Business Strategy/Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Open Access; Theory of the unthinkable; Managing tech; Proactive crisis management; Office for socially responsible technology (OSRT); Chief Technology Officer; Chief Officers for Crisis Management and Strategy; Dialectical thinking; Toulmin Argumentation Framework (TAF); Wicked Messes; Tech court; The socially responsible tech company; Information crises
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustainable and socially responsible for the betterment of humankind. It forecasts the unintended consequences of technology and offers methods to counteract it.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (55 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-43279-9

Access

Open Access