Conceptualizing Technological Change

In this original and thoughtful book, Govindan Parayil draws together current scholarship from disciplines ranging from history to economics to sociology as he develops a cohesive theory of technological change. Drawing on a detailed case study of the Green Revolution in Indian agriculture, Parayil convincingly argues that technological change is contingent upon the social-historical process of knowledge change.

Preface

vii

Introduction

1

(20)

Historical Models

21

(26)

Sociological Models

47

(24)

Economic Models

71

(24)

Neo-Schumpeterian Evolutionary Models

95

(20)

Technological Change as Problem Solving

115

(20)

Contingency and Practical Reflexivity

135

(18)

Competing Models and Their Explanatory Power

153

(18)

Technological Change as Knowledge Change: Toward a Syncretic Theory of Technological Change

171

(18)

Bibliography

189

(16)

Index

205

(6)

About the Author

211

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