"present and future impact of computers on management organization and the nature of managerial work." No two papers cover the …

In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with …

The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and … introduction to knowledge sharing in large organizations; empirical studies of expertise sharing in different types of settings … occurring social networks within organizations. …

The globalization of the economy, increasing number of transnational organizations, and rapid changes in robotics … organizations, and derive their implications using widely shared computational tools. This volume brings together a range of work …

, these essays by prominent scholars provide a general overview of theory and research on organizations, from the classic work … Organizations is recommended for graduate courses in the Sociology of Work and Organizations, and Complex Organizations, as well as …

Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology …. This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection … of economy and technology, suggesting materiality—the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social …

rates; the stochastic dimension of the American economy; the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations; and …

engineering organizations, showing how human and organizational systems could be restructured to bring about improved productivity …. The first three chapters provide an overview of the communication system in technology, present the author's research … organizations. The book then discusses how technological information is acquired by the R & D organization, shows how critical …