Technology, Organizations and Innovation: Theories, concepts and paradigmsIan McLoughlin, David Preece, Patrick Dawson Taylor & Francis, 2000 - 2024 pages An authoritative collection of leading critical and contemporary writings published in the field of technology and organizations. The set spans a 50-year time period taking the reader from the first and most influential papers from the early 1950s through to some recent publications which address contemporary and emerging debates in the field at the dawn of the 21st century. Each of the 4 volumes has a particular focus upon this area of research and scholarship: the early debates; theories, paradigms and concepts; critical empirical studies; and emerging themes and future debates. The editors provide an introduction to, and overview of, the themes, debates, perspectives, theories and paradigms which characterize this area of organization studies, and set out a "route map" to help guide the reader through the four volumes. |
Contents
THEORIES CONCEPTS AND PARADIGMS | 423 |
Managerial strategies new technology and the labour | 453 |
Politics and technology R J Thomas | 487 |
Do artifacts have politics? L Winner | 531 |
The social shaping of technology R Williams | 545 |
Feminist critiques of science and technology J Wajcman | 600 |
New technology work tasks and skills I McLoughlin | 626 |
The limits of hierarchy in an informated organization | 655 |
rethinking the concept | 749 |
sensemaking in new technologies | 789 |
Forms of automationintersphere automation the factory | 820 |
Building a model of the phases of computerization growth | 849 |
Structural crises of adjustment business cycles and investment | 871 |
Configurations and standardization J Fleck | 902 |
Mass production as destiny and blind decision M J Piore | 925 |
The new production systems debate R Badham | 957 |
Opening Pandoras black box B Latour | 679 |
or how | 698 |
Whats social about being shot? K Grint and S Woolgar | 718 |
miracle or myth? R Hyman | 1014 |
A new paradigm of work organization and technology? | 1027 |
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