Abstract
Research on the information society and the policies and strategies for its creation has tended to
discuss them rationally as the national, and occasionally international or regional, responses to
changes in the competitive environment. The predominant notion of the information society in various
levels of governance has only rarely been critically examined. The paper provides a Foucauldian
analysis of the constitution of the information society as a political and policy imperative at the level
of the European Union and the multiple effects it had for its member states. Drawing on ideas on
governmentality and regimes of truth, I argue that the European Commission continually shaped the
rationality and identity of the information society it heralded, by managing to set itself as the
legitimate locus of policy for the information society. In revealing the dominant discursive truths
about the European information society, the research discusses how the truth claims about the
construction of a particular version of the information society and the legitimate loci of its government
shaped the degrees of freedom of the Greek policy makers through a range of disciplining and selfdisciplining practices.
Recommended Citation
Chini, I, "Teaching case: Managing an IT carve out at a multi-national enterprise" (2009). ECIS 2009 Proceedings. 222.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2009/222