Technology and Organization

by Phillips, Nelson; Sewell, Graham; Griffiths, Dorothy, Ph.d.

• ISBN13: 9781849509848
• ISBN10: 1849509840
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-02
• Publisher: Emerald Group Pub Ltd

Summary

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 publication of her landmark book Industrial Organization. At the time of her death, Professor Woodward was the Chair in Industrial Sociology at Imperial College London, having been elected as only the second women professor at the College in 1970. She joined the Production Engineering and Management Section of Imperial in 1958 and the majority of her most important work was published during this period. Prior to this she had spent a number of years at the South East Essex College of Technology where she conducted much of the empirical work that informed her significant contributions to the field.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. ix
Advisory Board	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction
Introduction: Joan Woodward and the Study of Organizations	p. 3
Personal Reflections on Joan Woodward
Joan Woodward: A Personal Memory	p. 23
From Medieval History to Smashing the Medieval Account of Organizations	p. 25
Joan Woodward: A Style Fit for The Task	p. 29
Working With Joan Woodward	p. 35
The Contribution of Joan Woodward: A Personal Reflection	p. 41
Studies in Technology and Organization
We Are What We Do (And How We Do it): Organizational Technologies and the Construction of Organizational Identity	p. 49
Letting Users Into Our World: Some Organizational Implications of User-Generated Content	p. 79
Entrepreneurship and the Construction of Value in Biotechnology	p. 107
Institutional Sources of Technological Knowledge: A Community Perspective on Nanotechnology Emergence	p. 149
Project-Based Innovation: The World After Woodward	p. 177
Taking Time to Understand: Articulating Relationships Between Technologies and Organizations	p. 217
Short Essays in Technology and Organization
Technology and Organization: Contingency All the Way Down	p. 239
Textualizing Technology: Knowledge, Artifact, and Practice	p. 247
Technology, Institutions, and Entropy: Understanding the Critical and Creative Role of Maintenance Work	p. 259
What Are Business Models? Developing a Theory of Performative Representations	p. 265
The Role of Structured Intuition and Entrepreneurial Opportunities	p. 277
The Organization of Technological Platforms	p. 287
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