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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463150703321

Autore

Simakova Elena <1973-, >

Titolo

Marketing technologies : corporate cultures and technological change / / Elena Simakova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-10203-7

1-283-86179-8

1-136-23810-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in innovation, organization, and technology ; ; v. 25

Disciplina

381

Soggetti

Organizational change

Electronic commerce

Technological innovations - Economic aspects

Management - Technological innovations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The "market turn" in science and technology studies -- Marketing technologies : in theory, and in practice -- Inside corporations : an ethnographic approach -- Becoming a neophyte marketer -- Marketing texts as discursive objects, or do texts speak for themselves? -- "Softly, softly" tagging the world -- RFID "theatre of the proof" -- Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

Global corporations initiate, join and maintain socio-technological change and hence, alter the ways in which we organize our lives. Demanding significant investment of resources and time, the development and implementation of new technologies on different levels must take into consideration these subtle processes. As such, it is particularly important that we have a greater insight into the practices of hi-tech corporations, in view of the often inflated promises of and concerns about the destiny of technological breakthroughs, especially those promising sizeable economic outcomes and soci