Book Series

Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

Series Editor: David Preece

The books in the series offer groundings in central elements of the management of technology and innovation. They provide stimulating treatments of key themes which form part of the Management of Technology and/or Innovation syllabus and are primarily aimed at advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturing and research staff. The books explain, develop and critically explore issues and concepts on the assumption that students and staff already have a basic understanding of the area. All the books in the series incorporate a combination of this review of the current state of knowledge in a particular aspect of the management of technology/innovation with the presentation and discussion of new primary material not previously published. The series has been developed as a result of market research into the changing needs of lecturers and students and will tap emerging areas as they move into the curriculum. The series aims to offer a range of connected themes which can, if required, build into a course; each book is designed to be user-friendly, with an international orientation and key introductions and summaries.

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Software and Organisations

The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System or How SAP Conquered the World

By Neil Pollock, Robin Williams

Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

This is the first book that addresses the genesis and career of the modern day enterprise system in a comprehensive and robust manner. It does so through setting out a new approach for the study of packaged solutions and presents novel empirical studies based on in-depth ethnographic and...

Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
Challenging the Innovation Paradigm

Edited by Karl-Erik Sveiby, Pernilla Gripenberg, Beata Segercrantz

Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

Innovation is almost always seen as a "good thing". Challenging the Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy and contemporary innovation research. The one-sided focus on desirable effects of innovation misses many opportunities to reduce the undesirable consequences....

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development

By Claire Auplat

Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

Public institutions, academic researchers and financial analysts among others hail nanotechnologies as one of the most promising sectors of social and economic development. Calculations predict that it will become a trillion euro industry by 2015 and that it will bring about economic change of at...

Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
Health Technology Development and Use

From Practice-Bound Imagination to Evolving Impacts

By Sampsa Hyysalo

Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about future technology and uses,...

Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge
Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Society

Edited by Grete Rusten, Sarah Skerratt

Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

Drawing together the experiences of individuals, households and businesses, this book offers an international perspective on the on how and the extent to which the experiential nature of being rural, whether as an business manager in an SME (or micro-enterprise), a non-business person, a retired...

Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
Technological Communities and Networks

Triggers and Drivers for Innovation

By Dimitris Assimakopoulos

Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

The first book to analyze how new technologies are emerging against a background of continuing globalization of research and development activities. This unique book explores how technological communities and networks shape a broad range of new computer based technologies in regional, national and...

Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge
Managing Complex Projects

Networks, Knowledge and Innovation

By Neil Alderman, Chris Ivory, Ian Mcloughlin, Roger Vaughan

Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

Concerned with the management of complex long-term engineering projects, this important volume, of great interest to postgraduate students of business, technology management and engineering, reports on a set of rich, novel and unique findings concerning the conduct and management of three high...

Published July 31st 2004 by Routledge
Information Society and the Workplace

Spaces, Boundaries and Agency

Edited by Prof Jeff Hearn, Tuula Heiskanen

Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

Much has been written on the grand prospects for "Information Society"; much less on what this might mean in everyday terms. So what do we find when we look at what is happening in a society, Finland, that is one of closest to an information society? Bringing together studies of everyday local...

Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge
Technological Change and Organizational Action

Edited by Juha Laurila, David Preece

Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

In recent decades an extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated by new technologies and technological forms. This has initiated an interest in technological change as one of the conditions for...

Published March 19th 2003 by Routledge