Creative technological change : the shaping of technology and organisations /
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| Author / Creator: | McLoughlin, Ian, 1956- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. |
| Description: | ix, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Management of technology and innovation |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3733562 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: shaping technology and organisation
- From automation to 'cybernation': finding the 'human centre'
- The problem of technology and technological determinism
- What is technology and what does it do?
- Metaphors, technology and organisation
- Creative technological change - book structure
- 1. Machines, organisms and virtual realities
- Introduction
- The machine and its organisational dysfunctions
- Technology and industrial organisations
- From industrial to post-industrial organisations
- From post-industrial to 'virtual' organisations
- Assessment: technology as a contingent variable
- Conclusion
- 2. The evolution of the innovative organisation
- Introduction
- Evolutionary economics and technological innovation
- Technological innovation and organisations
- Trajectories, techno-economic paradigms and ICTs
- The innovative organisation
- Assessing evolutionary and biological models
- Conclusion
- 3. Fordism, post-Fordism and the electronic panopticon
- Introduction
- Labour process theory and the critique of post-industrialism
- Post-Fordist production concepts: flexible specialisation and lean production
- Virtual organisation: the archetypal post-modern organisation?
- The electronic panopticon
- Assessment: control, flexibility or panoptic power through technology?
- Conclusion
- 4. Organisational choice politics and the outcomes of technological change
- Introduction
- The political/cultural metaphor
- Strategic choice and organisational politics
- The process and politics of technological change
- Change management and the micro-politics of change
- The independent influence of technology
- Assessment: process, politics, power and technology
- Conclusion
- 5. Inside the black box: social constructivism and technology
- Introduction
- The social construction of science and technology
- The social construction of technology
- Actor-network theory
- The social construction of 'ICTs' 97
- A preliminary assessment of constructivist approaches to technology
- Conclusion
- 6. Transforming the organisation? Technology as 'text'
- Introduction
- Technology, text and culture
- The electronic mediation of work and organisational transformation
- Restrictive and thoroughgoing constructivist views of technology as text
- Configuring the user: transforming the organisation?
- Assessing the constructivist approach to technology
- Conclusion
- 7. Outside the black box: the socio-economic shaping of technology
- Introduction
- The socio-economic shaping of technology
- Interests in the production of technology: class, politics and gender
- Interests in the consumption of technology: suppliers and users
- Reshaping technology and organisation: 'new wave' sociotechnical systems
- Assessing socio-economic shaping
- Conclusion
- 8. Conclusion: creative technological change
- Introduction
- Metaphors, technology and organisation
- The shaping of a manufacturing innovation
- Kangaroo Whitegoods
- Wombat Plastics
- Koala Irrigation
- 'Reading' the three cases
- Shaping socio-technical configurations: the micro-politics of change
- Concluding comment
- References
- Index
