Which of the following describe organizations which use data to process increasing amounts of their activity? Please select all that apply.
A) Weber's (1958) iron cage of rationality
B) Zuboff's (1988) informated organization
C) Blackler's (1995) implosion and explosion of organizations
D) Bauman's (2000) liquid modernity

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Zuboff's informated organization described organizations encoding more and more of their activities into computer data. This is similar to Blackler's implosion of organizations into computer code, he adds to this by noting how this code 'explodes' into computer networks. This may well be a part of Bauman's liquid modernity, but Bauman does not specifically address computer data. Weber wrote at a time before computers were invented.

Which of the Following Describe Organizations Which Use Data to Process