Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture, and Change

Abstract

From the Publisher: 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.