Communicating in Digital Age Corporations

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COMMUNICATING IN DIGITAL AGE CORPORATIONS

Communicating in Digital Age Corporations

Anna Danielewicz-Betz

Communicating in Digital Age Corporations

Anna Danielewicz-Betz Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany

ISBN 978-1-137-55812-1 ISBN 978-1-137-55813-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55813-8

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Acknowledgements

I would like to express my gratitude to the many people who saw me through this book for more than a year; to all those who provided support, offered time to talk things over, read, wrote, offered comments and assisted in the editing, proofreading and design of the book. Specifically, I would like to thank all the anonymous ‘industry insiders’ who provided me with the empirical data and spent numerous hours with me so that I would be able to obtain the broad ethnographic background necessary, especially for the email corpus interpretation. They also allowed me to draw on their hands-on knowledge of the IT industry, and the sales division in particular, in the data analysis. Moreover, I wish to express my thanks to Hiro Tanaka for his insightful comments, especially on an earlier draft of Chapter 4, and his general encouragement. Some valuable feedback and ideas that directed me toward the successful completion of Chapter 3 were provided by David Seidl, to whom I am also grateful. I would also like to acknowledge Bradius V. Maurus III, who patiently proofread the whole book and offered some helpful remarks, leading to stylistic and other improvements in t