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The Resource Car crashes without cars : lessons about simulation technology and organizational change from automotive design, Paul M. Leonardi, (electronic book)

Car crashes without cars : lessons about simulation technology and organizational change from automotive design, Paul M. Leonardi, (electronic book)

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Every workday we wrestle with cumbersome and unintuitive technologies. Our response is usually "That's just the way it is." Even technology designers and workplace managers believe that certain technological changes are inevitable and that they will bring specific, unavoidable organizational changes. In this book, Paul Leonardi offers a new conceptual framework for understanding why technologies and organizations change as they do and why people think those changes had to occur as they did. He argues that technologies and the organizations in which they are developed and used are not separate entities; rather, they are made up of the same building blocks: social agency and material agency. Over time, social agency and material agency become imbricated--gradually interlocked--in ways that produce some changes we call "technological" and others we call "organizational." Drawing on a detailed field study of engineers at a U.S. auto company, Leonardi shows that as the engineers developed and used a a new computer-based simulation technology for automotive design, they chose to change how their work was organized, which then brought new changes to the technology. Each imbrication of the social and the material obscured the actors' previous choices, making the resulting technological and organizational structures appear as if they were inevitable. Leonardi suggests that treating organizing as a process of sociomaterial imbrication allows us to recognize and act on the flexibility of information technologies and to create more effective work organizations
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (x, 334 p.)
Contents
  • Perceptions of inevitability
  • Toward a theory of sociomaterial imbrication
  • Crashworthiness analysis at autoworks
  • Developing problems and solving technologies
  • Articulating visions of technology and organization
  • Interpreting relationships between the social and the material
  • Appropriating material features to change work
  • Organizing as a process of sociomaterial imbrication
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9780262305778
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Car crashes without cars : lessons about simulation technology and organizational change from automotive design
Title
Car crashes without cars
Title remainder
lessons about simulation technology and organizational change from automotive design
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Paul M. Leonardi
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Every workday we wrestle with cumbersome and unintuitive technologies. Our response is usually "That's just the way it is." Even technology designers and workplace managers believe that certain technological changes are inevitable and that they will bring specific, unavoidable organizational changes. In this book, Paul Leonardi offers a new conceptual framework for understanding why technologies and organizations change as they do and why people think those changes had to occur as they did. He argues that technologies and the organizations in which they are developed and used are not separate entities; rather, they are made up of the same building blocks: social agency and material agency. Over time, social agency and material agency become imbricated--gradually interlocked--in ways that produce some changes we call "technological" and others we call "organizational." Drawing on a detailed field study of engineers at a U.S. auto company, Leonardi shows that as the engineers developed and used a a new computer-based simulation technology for automotive design, they chose to change how their work was organized, which then brought new changes to the technology. Each imbrication of the social and the material obscured the actors' previous choices, making the resulting technological and organizational structures appear as if they were inevitable. Leonardi suggests that treating organizing as a process of sociomaterial imbrication allows us to recognize and act on the flexibility of information technologies and to create more effective work organizations
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1979-
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Leonardi, Paul M.
Dewey number
629.28/26
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
TL240
LC item number
.L426 2012eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Acting with technology
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  • Automobiles
  • Automobiles
  • Technology
Label
Car crashes without cars : lessons about simulation technology and organizational change from automotive design, Paul M. Leonardi, (electronic book)
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Publication
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unknown
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
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text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Perceptions of inevitability -- Toward a theory of sociomaterial imbrication -- Crashworthiness analysis at autoworks -- Developing problems and solving technologies -- Articulating visions of technology and organization -- Interpreting relationships between the social and the material -- Appropriating material features to change work -- Organizing as a process of sociomaterial imbrication
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IEEEMIT810933271
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 334 p.)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780262305778
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unknown
Media category
computer
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rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
9786613899675
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ill.
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not applicable
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unknown
Reproduction note
Electronic resource.
Sound
unknown sound
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remote
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ocn810933271
Label
Car crashes without cars : lessons about simulation technology and organizational change from automotive design, Paul M. Leonardi, (electronic book)
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Perceptions of inevitability -- Toward a theory of sociomaterial imbrication -- Crashworthiness analysis at autoworks -- Developing problems and solving technologies -- Articulating visions of technology and organization -- Interpreting relationships between the social and the material -- Appropriating material features to change work -- Organizing as a process of sociomaterial imbrication
Control code
IEEEMIT810933271
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 334 p.)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780262305778
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
9786613899675
Other physical details
ill.
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Reproduction note
Electronic resource.
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
ocn810933271

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