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Creative technological change the shaping of technology and organisations
Title:
Creative technological change the shaping of technology and organisations
Author:
McLoughlin, Ian.
ISBN:
9780203019870

9780415179997

9780415180009

9781134680160
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Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 188 p.) : ill.
Series:
Management of technology and innovation

Management of technology and innovation.
Contents:
Introduction: shaping technology and organisation -- Machines, organisms and virtual realities -- The evolution of the innovative organisation -- Fordism, post-Fordism and the electronic panopticon -- Organisational choice politics and the outcomes of technological change -- Inside the black box: social constructivism and technology -- Transforming the organisation? Technology as 'text' -- Outside the black box: the socio-economic shaping of technology -- Conclusion: creative technological change.
Abstract:
Creative Technological Change thoroughly examines the theoretical and conceptual basis of our understanding of technology and the nature of the relationship between technological change and its organisational outcomes. By drawing together diverse and prominent literature on technological and organisational transformation, together with a detailed survey of new 'virtual' technologies, this book serves to illustrate the contrast between both modern and emergent post-modern images of technology, and distinct conceptualisations of the interaction between technology and organisations.

This approach ultimately offers the possibility of developing new insights, lessons and creative responses to the organisational challenges posed by technological change in contemporary society. This book will be of interest to those studying in the fields of management and technology studies, organisational theory and change, and the sociology of technology.
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