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Rethinking political process in technological change: Socio-technical configurations and frames

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Ian McLoughlin, Professor Richard Badham

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Abstract

The political process perspective has done much to enhance our understanding of the organizational effects of technological change as a negotiated outcome reflecting the political and power dynamics of the adopting context. In so doing, we suggest, technology has been marginalized as an analytical category and the problem of change agency, although better understood, remains largely unresolved. This article addresses these issues through the articulation of the concepts of socio-technical configurations and technological frames and explores their utility in understanding change agency through an action research project. The project sought a novel form of 'socio-technology' transfer, taking ideas and concepts of 'human-centered' manufacturing embodied in team-based cellular manufacture from a European context into three firms in Australia. © 2000 Taylor & Francis Ltd.

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Author(s): McLoughlin I; Badham R; Couchman P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management

Year: 2000

Volume: 12

Issue: 1

Pages: 17-37

Print publication date: 01/01/2000

ISSN (print): 0953-7325

ISSN (electronic): 1465-3990

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/095373200107210

DOI: 10.1080/095373200107210

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