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Title Valuing technology : organisations, culture, and change / Janice McLaughlin [and others]
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)
Series The management of technology and innovation
Management of technology and innovation.
Contents pt. I. Theorising techno-organisational change. 1. The technology-organisation relation: settings and contexts. 2. The construction and consumption of sociotechnology -- pt. II. Case studies in techno-organisational change. 3. Closing and reopening the black box. 4. Professional identity in techno-organisational change. 5. Organisational culture and technological change. 6. Gendering technological change: femininity and the construction of skill -- pt. III. Comparative analyses of techno-organisational change. 7. Developing value: constructions of usability and utility. 8. Ending the acquisition process: stabilisation and incorporation
Summary Drawing on insights from both social studies of technology and the sociology of consumption, this book opens up new directions in the analysis of socio-technical change within organisations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-254) and index
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Subject Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Information technology -- Social aspects
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on
Information technology -- Social aspects
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Informatietechnologie.
Organisatieontwikkeling.
Technische vernieuwing.
Innovations -- Aspect social.
Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social.
Personnel -- Effets des innovations.
Form Electronic book
Author McLaughlin, Janice, 1968-
ISBN 9781134652167
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9781280330261
9786610330263
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