Information growth is a distinctive phenomenon of the late 20th and early 21st century, which refers to the increasing amount and variety of information produced and circulated in various institutional domains. Innovations in information and communication technologies coupled with new social and administrative arrangements have significantly accelerated the processes of production, storage, aggregation, dissemination and exchange of information.

In the information-driven world, organizations obtain competitive advantage from their superior data editing and information management strategies. While new commercial possibilities steadily develop around the production,ordering and distribution of information, it also challenges established managerial practices. The digitalization and standardization of data permits new forms of combination of information sources, with profound, though largely unintended, consequences for the economic and social life.

Information cannot anymore taken simply as a resource but as an overarching system of conditions, a habitat, that underpins a variety of organizational processes and developments.