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Valuing Technology: Organizations, Culture and Change (The Management of Technology and Innovation)
Valuing Technology Organizations Culture and Change - The Management of Technology and Innovation Author:Janice McLaughlin, Paul Rosen, Andrew Webster, David Skinner Valuing Technologyopens up new directions in the analysis of socio-technical change within organizations. Based on a major study of the introduction of management information systems in health, higher education and retailing, it explores the active role of end-users in the innovation process. — Subjects covered include: — * the valuing of technolo... more »gy via the on-going construction of needs, uses and utilities
* the interplay of organizational and technological cultures
* occupational identities, organizational inequalities and technological change
* the gendering of technological and organizational change
* interpretative flexibility and the 'stabilization' of technological systems.« less