Technology and organization essays in honour of Joan Woodward

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 publicati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillips, Nelson
Other Authors: Griffiths, Dorothy S., Sewell, Graham
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, UK Emerald Group 2010
Series:Research in the sociology of organizations
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of 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
  • Includes bibliographical references