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Emerald is pleased to announce the publication of 'Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward', volume 29 of the  series Research in the Sociology of Organizations. For full information please see below

Editors: Nelson Phillips, Graham Sewell, Dorothy Griffiths

ISBN 9781849507462

Format Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 320pp

Publication Date 7th June 2010

Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies, died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publication of her landmark book Industrial Organization. At the time of her death, Professor Woodward was the Chair in Industrial Sociology at Imperial College London, having been elected as only the second female professor at the College in 1970. She joined the Production Engineering and Management Section of Imperial in 1958 and the majority of her most important work was published during this period. Prior to this she spent a number of years at the South East Essex College of Technology where she conducted much of the empirical work that informed her significant contributions to the field.

Professor Woodward was instrumental in bringing technology to the fore in organizational sociology and her ten-year research program was one of the most influential projects ever carried out in the field of organization and management studies. Charles Perrow argues that Joan Woodward's work is "the most ambitious and stimulating comparative study using technology as an independent variable." The significant number of citations her work continues to receive across many disciplines is testament to its originality and importance.

This special volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations critically re-engages with Joan Woodward's contributions to organizational scholarship, while carrying forward the spirit of her thinking on the complex interactions between the social and technical realms. It also takes stock of recent developments in the themes, issues, and theories that she introduced.

TOC

Preface

Nelson Phillips, Graham Sewell & Dorothy Griffiths

Section 1 - Introduction                                  

Joan Woodward and the Study of Organizations  

Graham Sewell & Nelson Phillips           

Section 2 - Personal Reflections on Joan Woodward

Joan Woodward: A Personal Memory     

Dorothy Griffiths

From Medieval History to Smashing the Medieval Account of Organisations           

Charles Perrow             

Joan Woodward: A style fit for the task   

Sandra Dawson

Working with Joan Woodward    

Lisl Klein                      

The Contribution of Joan Woodward: A Personal Reflection           

C. R (Bob) Hinings        

Section 3 - Studies in Technology and Organization

We are what we do (and how we do it): Organizational technologies and the construction of organizational identity    

Anna Canato & Davide Ravasi    

Letting users into our world: some organizational implications of user-generated content     

Shahzad Ansari & Kamal Munir 

Entrepreneurship and the construction of value in biotechnology

Sarah Kaplan & Fiona Murray    

Institutional Sources of Technological Knowledge:A Community Perspective on Nanotechnology Emergence

Tyler Wry, Royston Greenwood,  P. Devereaux Jennings & Michael Lounsbury

Project-based innovation: the world after Woodward

Andrew Davies & Lars Frederiksen         

Taking time to understand: articulating relationships between technologies and organizations          

Jennifer Whyte              

Section 4 - Short Essays in Technology and Organizations    

Technology and Organisation: Contingency All the Way Down      

Wanda Orlikowski         

Textualising Technology: Knowledge, Artefact and Practice          

Cynthia Hardy               

Technology, Institutions and Entropy; Understanding the Critical and Creative Role of Maintenance Work     

Graham Dover & Thomas B. Lawrence

What are Business Models? Developing a Theory of Performative Representations 

Markus Perkmann & Andre Spicer          

The Role of Structured Intuition and Entrepreneurial Opportunities 

Gerard George & Adam J. Bock 

The Organisation of Technological Platforms        

Annabelle Gawer           

The book is available as part of Emerald's Business, Management and Economics eBook collection.

It can also be purchased separately from the usual book retailers, as well as the Emerald Book store

For further information contact the series Commissioning Editor, Kim Foster at kfoster@emeraldinsight.com

Best Regards

Rebecca

Rebecca Forster
Assistant Commissioning Editor
Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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