The authors of Valuing Technology ...suggest that adding IT to an organization, and finding value in that technology, is a complex process that happens as much at the frontline work site as it does at the upper levels of management. American Journal of Sociology September 2001 .
Product Description
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 technology 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.
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