Technology and organization essays in honour of Joan Woodward /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Phillips, Nelson, Griffiths, Dorothy S., Sewell, Graham
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, UK : Emerald Group, c2010.
• Σειρά: Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 29
• Θέματα: Woodward, Joan, > 1916-1971.; Organizational behavior.; Industrial organization.; Industrial organization > Technological innovations.; Organizational theory & behaviour.; History of engineering & technology.; Business & Economics > Organizational Behavior.; Technology & Engineering > History.; Technology & Engineering > General.

It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies. Professor Woodward died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publicati...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface / Nelson Phillips, Graham Sewell, Dot Griffiths
• Introduction: Joan Woodward and the study of organizations / Graham Sewell, Nelson Phillips
• Joan Woodward: a personal memory / Dorothy Griffiths
• From medieval history to smashing the medieval account of organizations / Charles Perrow
• Joan Woodward: a style fit for the task / Sandra Dawson
• Working with Joan Woodward / Lisl Klein
• The contribution of Joan Woodward: a personal reflection / C.R. (Bob) Hinings
• We are what we do (and how we do it): organizational technologies and the construction of organizational identity / Davide Ravasi and Anna Canato
• Letting users into our world: some organizational implications of user-generated content / Shahzad Ansari and Kamal Munir
• Entrepreneurship and the construction of value in biotechnology / Sarah Kaplan and Fiona Murray
• Institutional sources of technological knowledge: a community perspective on nanotechnology emergence / Tyler Wry, Royston Greenwood, P. Devereaux Jennings and Michael Lounsbury
• Project-based innovation: the world after Woodward / Andrew Davies and Lars Frederiksen
• Taking time to understand: articulating relationships between technologies and organizations / Jennifer Whyte
• Technology and organization: contingency all the way down / Wanda J. Orlikowski and Cynthia Hardy
• Textualizing technology: knowledge, artifact, and practice / Cynthia Hardy
• Technology, institutions, and entropy: understanding the critical and creative role of maintenance work / Graham Dover, Thomas B. Lawrence
• What are business models? Developing a theory of performative representations / Markus Perkmann, André Spicer
• The role of structured intuition and entrepreneurial opportunities / Gerard George, Adam J. Bock
• The organization of technological platforms / Annabelle Gawer.