Technology and organization : essays in honour of Joan Woodward / edited by Nelson Phillips, Dorothy Griffiths, Graham Sewell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Nelson.

Griffiths, Dorothy S.

Sewell, Graham.

Series:

Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 29

Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; v. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woodward, Joan, 1916-1971.

Woodward, Joan.

Organizational behavior.

Industrial organization.

Industrial organization--Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612661549

9781282661547

128266154X

9781849509855

1849509859

OCLC:

650883558