Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Advisory board -- Preface -- Section 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Joan Woodward and the study of organizations -- The initial reception of industrial organization: theory and practice -- Joan Woodward and the technological imperative in organizational sociology -- The intellectual and cultural antecedents of Woodward's work -- A volume on Joan Woodward -- Notes -- References -- A Bibliography of Works by Joan Woodward -- Section 2 - Personal Reflections on Joan Woodward -- Chapter 2. Joan Woodward: A personal memory -- Chapter 3. From medieval history to smashing the medieval account of organizations -- Chapter 4. Joan Woodward: A style fit for the task -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Working with Joan Woodward -- References -- Chapter 6. The contribution of Joan Woodward: A personal reflection -- References -- Section 3 - Studies in Technology and Organization -- Chapter 7. We are what we do (and how we do it): Organizational technologies and the construction of organizational identity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Technology as an identity referent -- 4. The consequences of technology as an identity referent -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8 . Letting users into our world: Some organizational implications of user-generated content -- Introduction -- How users are understood in management research -- Challenges from user-generated content - the democratization of innovations -- Discussion: Users as participants in value creation networks -- Conclusion -- Future directions and limitations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9. Entrepreneurship and the construction of value in biotechnology -- Economic logics and the evolution of technology.

Constructing biotechnology -- The first biotech era (1973-1986) -- Constructing a new logic for the second biotech era (1990-2001) -- Breakdown and reconstruction of the biotechnology economic logic in the 2000s -- Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10. Institutional sources of technological knowledge: a community perspective on nanotechnology emergence -- Theoretical perspective -- Data and methods -- Method of analysis -- Results -- University knowledge creation culture -- Community isomorphism -- Discussion and implications -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Appendix. NAICS codes relevant to nanotechnology R&D -- Chapter 11. Project-based innovation: The world after Woodward -- Introduction -- Woodward's typology of production systems -- Linking technology and organization -- Towards a new framework -- Product development projects: The engine of innovation across industries -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 12. Taking time to understand: Articulating relationships between technologies and organizations -- Introduction -- Development and use of technologies -- Research setting and method -- Construction sector users -- A history of the technological field -- Disjunctures between technology development and use -- Discussion: Implications for user sensemaking -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Section 4 - Short Essays in Technology and Organization -- Chapter 13. Technology and organization: Contingency all the way down -- Contingency - Take I -- Contingency - Take II -- Contingency - Take III -- Contingency - Going Forward -- Note -- References -- Chapter 14. Textualizing technology: Knowledge, artifact, and practice -- Technology as knowledge -- Technology as practice -- Technology as artifact -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 15. Technology, institutions, and entropy: understanding the critical and creative role of maintenance work -- References -- Chapter 16. What are business models? Developing a theory of performative representations -- Introduction -- Theorizing business models -- Criticisms of the business model concept -- Toward a theory of business models as performative representations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17. The role of structured intuition and entrepreneurial opportunities -- The role of structure -- Intuition -- Implications -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 18. The organization of technological platforms -- Platforms -- The four levers of platform leadership -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References.