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Technology and organization : power, meaning and design /
In this important MBA text the authors adopt a highly integrated approach. Using the three conceptual lenses of power, meaning and design they explore fully the many different ways in which technology and organizations interact. They highlight the major debates within these competing perspectives an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge Library Editions: Organizations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Knowing the Dancer from the Dance; Introduction; Technology and Organization: a Processual View; Levels of Technology; Learning and Adaptation; Subjective and Objective Forms of Knowledge; Organizational Autonomy and Technological Development; Circuits of Power, Meaning and Design; The Structure of this Book; Part I: Power; 2 Technology, Power and Organization; Introduction; From Fordism to Flexibility.
- Flexibility and the Control of LabourThe Politics of Expertise; Summary; 3 Technology, Power and the User; Introduction; The Design Process; The Implementation Process; The Use-Process; Summary: Power and the Technology Process; Part II: Meaning; 4 Technology and Ideology; Introduction; Ideology; Socio-Cultural Ideology; Organizational Ideology; Summary: Power, Ideology and the Technology Process; 5 The Meaning of Technology in Organizations; Introduction; Technology and Organizational Choice: Managerial Perceptions; Technology and Organizational Choice: Perceptions of Systems Designers.
- User Perceptions and Affective Responses to TechnologyTechnology and the Nature of User Skill; Technology, Skill and Identity; Summary: Technology and Circuits of Meaning; Part III: Design; 6 Design, Knowledge and Innovation; Introduction; Generation; Transmission; Assembly; Summary; 7 The Design Circuit; Introduction; Organization Structure and Knowledge; Linking Mechanisms; The Management of Knowledge-Workers; Knowledge-Workers and Market Controls; IT and the Management of Knowledge-Workers; Expert Systems; User Involvement; Summary.
- 8 Technology, Management and Organization: Some ConclusionsIntroduction; Technical Standards; The Diffusion of Technology; Technological and Managerial Knowledge; Competences and Competence Traps; Beyond Strategy?; Summary and Conclusions; References; Index.