Society and Technological Change

Society and Technological Change
Author: Rudi Volti
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005-06-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780716787327

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the interactions of society and technology. The new fifth edition includes coverage of such timely topics as cloning, stem-cell research, genetically modified foods, terrorism, intellectual property, and the global impact of the internet.

Work and Technological Change

Work and Technological Change
Author: Stephen R. Barley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Employees
ISBN: 0198795203

Stephen R. Barley reflects on over three decades of research to explore both the history of technological change and the approaches used to investigate how technologies, including intelligent technologies such as machine learning and robotics, are shaping our work and organizations.

Managing Technological Change

Managing Technological Change
Author: Carol Joyce Haddad
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2002-05-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0761925635

This book examines how new workplace technology can improve performance - and how it can have the opposite effect when it is not properly planned and introduced with the participation of key stakeholders. It provides an overview and explanation of the steps involved in technology planning, acquisition, development, implementation, and assessment.

Twenty-Five Centuries of Technological Change

Twenty-Five Centuries of Technological Change
Author: J. Mokyr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317834410

Mokyr provides a long term perspective on the economic impact of technological change, surveying developments in production technologies between 500 BC and 1914.

Creative Technological Change

Creative Technological Change
Author: Ian Mcloughlin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2002-03-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134680163

Creative Technological Change draws upon a wide range of thinking from organisational theory, innovation studies and the sociology of technology. It explores the different ways in which these questions have been framed and answered, especially in relation to new 'virtual' technologies. The idea of metaphor is used to capture the differences between, and strengths and weaknesses of various ways of conceptualising the technology/organisation relationship. This approach offers the possibility of developing new ways of thinking about, viewing and ultimately responding creatively to the organisational challenges posed by technological change.

Retooling

Retooling
Author: Rosalind Williams
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2003-08-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780262265065

A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT. When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis's granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather's and her own experience to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary life. Rosalind Williams served as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT from 1995 through 2000. From this vantage point, she watched a wave of changes, some planned and some unexpected, transform many aspects of social and working life—from how students are taught to how research and accounting are done—at this major site of technological innovation. In Retooling, she uses this local knowledge to draw more general insights into contemporary society's obsession with technology. Today technology-driven change defines human desires, anxieties, memories, imagination, and experiences of time and space in unprecedented ways. But technology, and specifically information technology, does not simply influence culture and society; it is itself inherently cultural and social. If there is to be any reconciliation between technological change and community, Williams argues, it will come from connecting technological and social innovation—a connection demonstrated in the history that unfolds in this absorbing book.

Organizational Aspects of Health Informatics

Organizational Aspects of Health Informatics
Author: Nancy M. Lorenzi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1475741847

It has become obvious in recent years that successfully introducing major new systems into complex medical organizations requires an effective blend of good technical and organizational skills. The technically best system may be woefully inadequate if its implementation is resisted by people who have low psychological ownership in that system. On the other hand, people with high ownership can make a technically mediocre system function fairly well. ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH INFORMATICS focuses on both the successful strategies for implementation of information systems with medical organizations and also on effective management strategies for the altered organization once the new systems are in place.

Technological Change

Technological Change
Author: Robert Fox
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 1996
Genre: Technological innovations
ISBN: 3718657929

Technological Change gathers together examples of the best current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting other papers which reflect the 'state of the art' in key areas of historical debate. The volume emphasises the need both to establish a common forum for theoretical and empirical research and also to delineate the shared concerns of these two treatments, which are too often reflected as conflicting rather than mutually supportive approaches to the writing of the history of technology.

Paths of Innovation

Paths of Innovation
Author: David C. Mowery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1999-10-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521646536

In 1903 the Wright brothers' airplane travelled a couple of hundred yards. Today fleets of streamlined jets transport millions of people each day to cities worldwide. Between discovery and application, between invention and widespread use, there is a world of innovation, of tinkering, improvement and adaptation. This is the world David Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg map out in Paths of Innovation, a tour of the intersecting routes of technological change. Throughout their book, Mowery and Rosenberg demonstrate that the simultaneous emergence of new engineering and applied science disciplines in the universities, in tandem with growth in the Research and Development industry and scientific research, has been a primary factor in the rapid rate of technological change. Innovation and incentives to develop new, viable processes have led to the creation of new economic resources - which will determine the future of technological innovation and economic growth.