Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/0xdpxa Technological Change and Organizational Action By: Juha Laurila Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415265911, 0415265916 eText ISBN: 9781134502004, 1134502001 Edition: 1st Pages: 224 Copyright year: 2003 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.18 USD SKU 9781134502004R90 In recent decades an extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated by new technologies and technological forms. This has initiated an interest in technological change as one of the conditions for organizational action and researchers have begun to draw inspiration from a wider spectrum of conceptual issues, perspectives and theoretical traditions. This book is interested in the level of praxis and how this might be understood and theorized. It brings together a comprehensive collection of empirically-grounded and theoretically-informed research projects from studies of organizational practice which explore a number of technological changes in a variety of contexts. These are informed by contemporary debates within and across theoretical approaches including the sociology of technology, work and organizations, actor network theory, technology as text and metaphor, processual and political perspectives, social and business network-based approaches to the analysis of technology and innovation, and the social construction and shaping of technology. This book will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students within the field of technology, work and organizations and also organization studies and management studies. Additional ISBNs 9781280058165, 1280058161
