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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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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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Automobiles - Design and construction - Data processing |
Automobiles - Computer simulation |
Technology - Social aspects |
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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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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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"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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UNINA9910966124803321 |
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Autore |
Catlos Brian A |
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The victors and the vanquished : Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300 / / Brian A. Catlos |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, c2004 |
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9780511209246 |
051120924X |
9781107145931 |
1107145937 |
9781280540752 |
1280540753 |
9780511214615 |
0511214618 |
9780511216404 |
0511216408 |
9780511211034 |
0511211031 |
9780511327223 |
0511327226 |
9780511496424 |
0511496427 |
9780511212802 |
0511212801 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxiv, 449 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; ; 4th ser., 59 |
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Christians - Spain - Aragon - History |
Muslims - Spain - Aragon - History |
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Christians - Spain - Catalonia - History |
Muslims - Spain - Catalonia - History |
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Aragon (Spain) History |
Aragon (Spain) Ethnic relations |
Catalonia (Spain) History |
Catalonia (Spain) Ethnic relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-438) and index. |
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; Pt. I. Muslim domination of the Ebro and its demise, 700-1200 -- ; 1. Thaghr and Taifa -- ; 2. Christians and Muslims : contact and conquest -- ; Pt. II. Muslims under Christian rule -- ; 3. financial and judicial administration of Mudejar society -- ; 4. Muslims in the economy of the Christian Ebro -- ; 5. Mudejar ethnicity and Christian society -- ; 6. Muslims and Christian society -- Mudejarismo as a social system -- ; Pt. III. Individual and community in the Christian Ebro -- ; Case Study 1. Fiscal and confessional identity : the galips, templar vassals in Zaragoza (1179-1390) -- ; Case Study 2. Franquitas and factionalism in Daroca : the Lucera family vs. the Aljama (1267-1302) -- ; Case Study 3. Litigation and competition within the Muslim community : the Abdellas of Daroca (1280-1310) -- ; Case Study 4. Administrative corruption and royal complicity : Abrahim Abengentor, Caualquem of Huesca (1260-1304) -- ; Case Study 5. Overlapping agendas : the career of Mahomet, Alaminus of Borja (1276-1302) -- ; Case Study 6. good, the bad, and the indifferent : Christian officials in the Ebro region -- Personal histories : the individual, within the community and beyond -- Conclusions : Mudejar ethnogenesis -- ; App. 1. Currency of the thirteenth-century Ebro region -- ; App. 2. Toponymical variants in archival documents -- ; App. 3. Rulers of the "Crown of Aragon," 1050-1300. |
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This is a revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish 'reconquest'. It looks beyond the obvious religious distinctions and delves into the subtleties of identity in the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, uncovering a social dynamic in which sectarian differences comprise only one of the many factors in the causal complex of political, economic and cultural reactions. Beginning with the final stage of independent Muslim rule in the Ebro valley region, the book traces the transformation of Islamic society into mudéjar society under Christian domination. This was a case of social evolution in which Muslims, far from being passive victims of foreign colonisation, took an active part in shaping their institutions and experiences as subjects of the Infidel. Using a diverse range of methodological approaches, this book challenges widely held assumptions concerning Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, and minority-majority relations in general. |
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