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UNINA9910785785003321 |
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Autore |
Leonardi Paul M. <1979-> |
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Titolo |
Car crashes without cars : lessons about simulation technology and organizational change from automotive design / / Paul M. Leonardi |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-58722-X |
9786613899675 |
0-262-30577-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Automobiles - Design and construction - Data processing |
Automobiles - Computer simulation |
Technology - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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