Shoshana Zuboff's field work, historical research, and contributions to the ODYSSEY program over the past six years
     are culminating in a two-volume book that deals with organizational and individual adaptation to an information economy.
     Volume One focuses on the crisis of historical discontinuity and the nature of organizational metamorphosis; Volume
     Two discusses the principles and processes through which individuals can forge meaningful pathways in a new economic
     and organizational universe. ODYSSEY is an executive program designed to promote insight into personal development
     and career choice-making. The program, which acknowledges the changing relationships among individuals, careers, and
     organizations on the eve of the twenty-first century, combines theory and research on adult development with experiential
     learning and practical support for individuals seeking to make mid-life career transitions. A key feature of ODYSSEY is
     the involvement of participants and spouses in generating insights and exploring pathways towards new careers and life
     structures. Zuboff continues to develop teaching materials for the program.
 

SHOSHANA ZUBOFF

    Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University,
     Graduate School of Business Administration, where she joined the faculty in 1981. She earned her Ph.D in social
     psychology from Harvard University and her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.

     In 1979, Professor Zuboff began an extensive research project aimed at understanding the implications of the
     massive diffusion of information technology for the nature of work, organization, and management. Her pioneering
     study, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, was published in 1988 to critical
     acclaim and has become the definitive work on this subject. The book combines years of detailed field research
     with extensive historical, sociological, and psychological analysis. It portrays the bankruptcy of traditional
     approaches to organization and management as they confront the challenges and dilemmas of the computerized
     workplace. In the Age of the Smart Machine develops a carefully grounded alternative vision of the nature of
     work and management in the emerging workplace of the twenty-first century.

     Professor Zuboff is a member of the editorial boards of The American Prospect and Organization. Her initial
     research for In the Age of the Smart Machine was supported by an award from the National Institute of Mental
     Health.                  excerpts taken from  http://www.people.hbs.edu/szuboff/publications.html