The Duality of Technology
Author | : Wanda Janina Orlikowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Industrial management |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wanda Janina Orlikowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Industrial management |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wanda Janina Orlikowski |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2018-02-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780484681162 |
Excerpt from The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations Through the regular action of knowledgeable and reflexive actors, patterns of interactions become established as standardized practices in organizations, e.g., ways of manufacturing a product, coordinating a meeting, or evaluating an employee. Over time, habitual use Of such practices eventually become institutionalized, forming the structural properties of organizations. These structural or institutionalized properties (structure) are drawn on by humans in their ongoing interactions (agency), even as such use, in turn, reinforces the institutionalized properties. In this formulation-known as the duality of structure-giddens overcomes the dualism between Objective, structural features of organizations and subjective, knowledgeable action of human agents. When humans act in organizations, they create and recreate three fundamental elements Of social interaction [giddens meaning, power, and norms. While these elements are highly interdependent and not separable in practice, for analytical purposes we can treat them as distinct, examining each from the perspective Of human agency and institutionalized properties. From an agency point Of view, human interaction involves the constitution and communication Of meaning. This is achieved via interpretive schemes or stocks of knowledge that humans draw on in their ongoing interaction with the world, which form the core Of mutual knowledge whereby an accountable universe of meaning is sustained through and in processes of interaction [giddens 1979z83]. The interpretive schemes, however, do more than merely enable shared meanings and hence mediate communication. From the perspective of institutionalized properties, interpretive schemes represent organizational structures of signification, which represent the organizational rules that inform and define interaction. Interpretive schemes are also reinforced or changed through social interaction, as the organizational rules are reaffirmed or challenged through their use by human agents. Thus, in any interaction, shared knowledge is not merely part of the background, but is an integral part Of the social encounter, in part organizing it, and in part being shaped by the interaction itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Wanda Janina Orlikowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Information technology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wanda J. Orlikowski |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781295814411 |
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Author | : Wendy Currie |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1999-04-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0191589721 |
This book examines influential ideas within Management Information Systems (MIS). Leading international contributors summarize key topics and explore a variety of issues currently being discussed in the field. They re-visit influential ideas such as socio-technical theory, systems thinking, and structuration theory and demonstrate their relevance to newer ideas such as re-engineering, hybrid management, knowledge workers, and outsourcing. In locating MIS within an interdisciplinary context, particularly in the light of rapid technological changes, this book will form the link between past and future approaches to MIS.
Author | : Yevgeny Karasik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2021-05-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
There are many books on duality. All of them fall into the following hackneyed categories: putting various spins on the classical dualities of good and evil, right and wrong, light and dark, mind and body, male and female, etc.: dualities as limitations and how to overcome them, or how to not limit oneself to one side; duality as illusion and how to free oneself from it; duality between women and men and how to reconcile it; etc. poetic and odd dualities such as the duality of the third dimension; haphazard dualities such as duality of risk and pain, moon and sun, wall and ceiling or any two other haphazardly chosen objects; treatises on the dual nature of something, e.g. the dual nature of matter, or the dual nature of mind, or the dual nature of soul, or the dual nature of space, etc. and, finally, scientific textbooks and monographs on duality principles in mathematics and physics. This book breaks a new ground and presents dualities discovered in the course of the research on how people think, solve problems and invent. The research began within the framework of TRIZ (the Russian acronym for the Theory of Inventor's Problems Solving) but went beyond it. It all started with the discovery of duality patterns in the TRIZ methods of invention. Attempts to formalize them led to the discovery of mathematical operators with properties that no other mathematical operator has. This led to the hypothesis that until now mathematics was the science about equal dualities. Accordingly, a program was launched to transform mathematics so that the axioms and theorems would assert the equivalence of dualities. Then dual transitions were discovered in the mechanisms of thinking and evolution. All this was put to use in devising new methods and algorithms of invention. The duality revolution has begun and continue to spread across domains revolutionizing them. This is what this book is about.
Author | : Stanford University. Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nuno Gil |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108473164 |
Using Africa as a context for research, new conceptual framing is proposed to make sense of the challenges of designing effective organizations to pursue socio-economic development.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 1997-10-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0309057299 |
Author | : Nikunj Dalal |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317076591 |
The dramatic recent advances and emergent trends in technologies have brought to the fore many vital and challenging questions and dilemmas for leaders and organizations. These are issues that call for a critical, insightful examination of key questions such as: are modern technologies beneficial or problematic for the well-being of individuals, organizations, and societies at large; why do we seem to feel more disconnected in an age of technological connectivity; can organizations reduce technology-induced stresses and find ways to enable the mindful use of technologies and how can organizations, governments and societies manage the use of technologies wisely? Such questions, when explored from various perspectives of wisdom, can yield significant insights, increase awareness of the issues, deepen the dialogue and help redesign an increasingly technology-driven future. However, there is little researched published material available on such questions and issues. Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology: Insights, Issues and Questions for a New Millennium will provide a space to engage in thought-provoking dialogue and critical reflection on a variety of themes linking technology and practical wisdom. It will offer a foundation for exploration, inquiry, engagement, and discussion among organizational, political and social leaders, technology professionals, information systems academicians, wisdom researchers, managers, philosophers of technology, and other practitioners.