Technological Change and Organizational Action

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ISBN: 9780415265911 | 0415265916
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Copyright: 5/16/2003

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This book provides fresh insights into the constantly changing technology and organizations domain. The book draws upon several perspectives such as social construction, the shaping of technology, technology as text and metaphor, communities of practice, regional studies and political processes in its theoretically informed and empirically detailed analyses of a variety of technological, organizational and work developments occurring in organizations across a range of countries.

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List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

xiv

Looking backwards and sideways to see forward: some notes on technological change and organizational action

(19)

Juha Laurila

David Preece

Introduction

(1)

Looking backwards: the incremental incorporation of organizational actors into the study of technology

(3)

Looking sideways: recent actor and network-focused approaches to technological change

(6)

Trying to see forward: some conclusions

(9)

The mutual shaping of technology and organisation: 'Between Cinema and a Hard Place'

(17)

Ian McLoughlin

Patrick Dawson

Introduction

(1)

Re-examining and redefining technology

(4)

Beyond technological determinism: technology as a social construct

(3)

Bringing materiality back home: the mutual shaping of technology and organisation

(3)

Conclusion

(6)

Company intranets, technology and texts

(19)

David Preece

Ken Clarke

Introduction

(1)

Adopting, using and talking about intranets

(3)

The case study

(11)

Discussion

(5)

ERP software packages: between mass-production communities and intra-organizational political processes

(21)

Christian Koch

Introduction

(1)

The political process approach to organizational change

(1)

Political programmes

(1)

Mass-producing communities

(2)

ERP: Information Technology as a political programme

(4)

The general results from the sample cases: mass-production communities

(6)

Conclusion

(6)

'Push people's balls and push people's balls and push people's balls until something comes out': understanding implementation as a 'configurational practice'

(26)

Richard Badham

Ian McLoughlin

Karin Garrety

Introduction

(1)

Configurational practice model

(10)

Case study: work redesign in a coke-making plant

(8)

Key issues in the configurational process

(5)

Conclusion

100

(3)

Normalization of risks: a stream of bow visor incidents and the Estonia ferry accident

103

(18)

Hannu Hanninen

Introduction

103

(1)

The Estonia and an error-inducing marine system

104

(1)

Acceptable risk

105

(4)

The normalization of risks

109

(3)

The stabilization of ro-ro and bow visor concepts

112

(1)

The stream of visor incidents

113

(1)

The normalization of visor risk

114

(3)

The Estonia accident revisited

117

(1)

Discussion and conclusions

117

(4)

Kicking against the pricks: corporate entrepreneurship in mature organizations

121

(26)

Oswald Jones

Introduction: managing maturity

121

(1)

From change agent to corporate entrepreneur

122

(5)

Institutional change

127

(2)

Incorporating managerial agency

129

(2)

Research methods

131

(1)

Kicking against the pricks

132

(7)

Institutionalizing change

139

(3)

Conclusions

142

(5)

Experimentation as a boundary practice in exploring technological development processes in chemistry

147

(14)

Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma

Introduction

147

(1)

Perspectives on experimentation

148

(2)

Research setting and process

150

(2)

Experimentation cycle of the catalyst

152

(6)

Conclusions

158

(3)

Regional technology systems or global networks? The sources of innovation in opto-electronics in Wales and Thuringia

161

(25)

Chris Hendry

James Brown

Hans-Dieter Ganter

Susanne Hilland

Introduction

161

(3)

Innovation in the modern world

164

(1)

Opto-electronics: technology and industry development

165

(4)

Regional policy and initiatives

169

(4)

How companies innovate

173

(8)

Discussion and conclusion

181

(5)

'We have crossed the rubicon': a 'one-team' approach to information technology

186

(17)

David Knights

Darren McCabe

Introduction

186

(2)

The case study

188

(10)

Discussion and conclusion

198

(5)

Index

203

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