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The Question of Technology, or How Organizations Inscribe the World
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Abstract The paper relates technology studies to organization research and examines the technology-as-text metaphor. The study of organization is incomplete as long as tangible technology remains in its blind spot. Linguistic metaphors and analogues, while capturing and indeed amplifying much of received und... mehr
The paper relates technology studies to organization research and examines the technology-as-text metaphor. The study of organization is incomplete as long as tangible technology remains in its blind spot. Linguistic metaphors and analogues, while capturing and indeed amplifying much of received understandings of technology, succeed only partially in repairing the situation. The image of the palimpsest is used to highlight this critique and to visualize ways out. Thus, while the paper‚s main concern is to bring back technology to the study of organization, a specific approach to the study of technology is also argued for.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Technikforschung; soziale Norm; Organisationsforschung; Norm; Technik; Techniksoziologie; Wissenschaftsforschung; Latour, B.; Technologie; Institutionalisierung
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
inscription; material culture; materialization
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
1998
Seitenangabe
S. 363-385
Zeitschriftentitel
Organization studies: an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies, 19 (1998) 3
ISSN
0170-8406
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 1.0