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.

Product Description: An authoritative collection of the leading critical and contemporary writings published in the field of technology and organizations, this set spans a key fifty-year period. The volumes take the reader from the first and most influential papers from the early 1950s, through to recent publications which address contemporary and emerging debates in the field at the dawn of a new century...read more

Product Description: This work documents the decline of collective industrial relations and examines the emergence of new "human resource management" techniques as a non-union alternative. It presents the findings of a large-scale study of non-union industrial relations in Britain.

Product Description: "Automate or Liquidate" has been a popular cry in British industry. In "Technological Change at Work" Ian McLoughlan and Jon Clark focus on automation in its most pervasive contemporary guise - computing and information technologies...read more

Product Description: Based on a five-year study of aspects of British Telecom's extensive telephone exchange modernization programme, this book examines the main issues that arise during the introduction of technological change in the workplace.