Technological change and organizational action / edited by David Preece and Juha Laurila.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Looking backwards and sideways to see forward: some notes on technological change and organizational action / Juha Laurila, David Preece -- The mutual shaping of technology and organisation: 'Between Cinema and a Hard Place' / Ian McLoughlin, Patrick Dawson -- Company intranets, technology and texts / David Preece, Ken Clarke -- ERP software packages: between mass-production communities and intra-organizational political processes / Christian Koch -- 'Push people's balls and push people's balls and push people's balls until something comes out': understanding implementation as a 'configurational practice' / Richard Badham, Ian McLoughlin, Karin Garrety -- Normalization of risks: a stream of bow visor incidents and the Estonia ferry accident / Hannu Hanninen -- Kicking against the pricks: corporate entrepreneurship in mature organizations / Oswald Jones -- Experimentation as a boundary practice in exploring technological development processes in chemistry / Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma -- Regional technology systems or global networks? The sources of innovation in opto-electronics in Wales and Thuringia / Chris Hendry ... [and others] -- 'We have crossed the rubicon': a 'one-team' approach to information technology / David Knights, Darren McCabe.