Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > Automotive technology
|
Not currently available
Car Crashes Without Cars - Lessons About Simulation Technology and Organizational Change From Automotive Design (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
You Save: R31
(11%)
|
|
Car Crashes Without Cars - Lessons About Simulation Technology and Organizational Change From Automotive Design (Hardcover)
Series: Acting with Technology
(sign in to rate)
List price R285
Loot Price R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
You Save R31 (11%)
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
A novel theory of organizational and technological change,
illustrated by an account of the development and implementation of
a computer-based simulation technology. Every workday we wrestle
with cumbersome and unintuitive technologies. Our response is
usually "That's just the way it is." Even technology designers and
workplace managers believe that certain technological changes are
inevitable and that they will bring specific, unavoidable
organizational changes. In this book, Paul Leonardi offers a new
conceptual framework for understanding why technologies and
organizations change as they do and why people think those changes
had to occur as they did. He argues that technologies and the
organizations in which they are developed and used are not separate
entities; rather, they are made up of the same building blocks:
social agency and material agency. Over time, social agency and
material agency become imbricated-gradually interlocked-in ways
that produce some changes we call "technological" and others we
call "organizational." Drawing on a detailed field study of
engineers at a U.S. auto company, Leonardi shows that as the
engineers developed and used a a new computer-based simulation
technology for automotive design, they chose to change how their
work was organized, which then brought new changes to the
technology.Each imbrication of the social and the material obscured
the actors' previous choices, making the resulting technological
and organizational structures appear as if they were inevitable.
Leonardi suggests that treating organizing as a process of
sociomaterial imbrication allows us to recognize and act on the
flexibility of information technologies and to create more
effective work organizations.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.