Getting New Technologies Together - Studies in Making Sociotechnical Order

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List of contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Coordination of Ship Propeller Design: Technical Models and the Relation of T. Y. Draco with Queen Elizabeth ?I -- Chapter 2. Means of Coordination in Making Biological Science: On the Mapping of Plants, Animals, and Genes -- Chapter 3. Coordination in Military Socio-technical Networks: Military Needs, Requirements and Guiding Principles -- Chapter 4. Getting an Experiment Together in High Energy Physics: Big Plans, Big Machines, and Bricolage -- Chapter 5. Why Are Chickens Housed in Battery Cages? -- Chapter 6. Aligning Gender and New Technology: The Case of Early Administrative Automation -- Chapter 7. Expectations in Technological Developments: An Example of Prospective Structures to be Filled in by Agency -- Chapter 8. Boundary Maintenance and Radioactive Waste Disposal Technology in the U.S., 1945-1970 -- Chapter 9. Meaningful Boundaries: Symbolic Representations in Heterogeneous Research and Development Projects -- Chapter 10. Antagonistic Patterns and New Technologies -- Chapter 11. Getting Case Studies Together: Conclusions on the Coordination of Sociotechnical Order -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Product details

• Assisted by: Corneli Disco (Editor), Cornelis Disco (Editor), Barend Van Der Meulen (Editor), van der Meulen (Editor), van der Meulen (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9783110156300
• ISBN: 978-3-11-015630-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 30 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 666 g
• Illustrations: 40 b/w ill.
• Series: Gruyter Studies in Organization; de Gruyter Studies in Organization; de Gruyter Studies in Organization
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration