Understanding technological innovation
Subtitle: a socio-technical approach
By: by Patrice Flichy ; translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847203915
Subjects: Social sciences -- Methodology; Technological innovations
Work titles: Innovation technique.
Notes: "English translation of L'innovation technique."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Standard theories; title: From no technology to all technology; title: The residual factors in economic analysis; title: Economists and the diffusion of innovation; title: Sociologists and the diffusion of innovation; title: The closed world of the technical history of technology; title: All-technology; title: Technological determinism / social determinism; title: Economists' view of the origins of innovation: technology push or market pull; title: The question of determinism in history; title: The question of effects in sociology and history of communication; title: The issue of determinism in the sociology of labour; title: A socio-technical approach; title: The anthropology of technology; title: Thinking the technological and the social together; title: Cultural technology; title: Technology as a social artefact; title: Technoscience and networks; title: The network; title: The actor; title: The context; title: Limits of networks; title: The role of users; title: Semiotic approaches; title: Sociology of media and new media; title: Information technologies and organization; title: Socio-technical action and frame of reference; title: Forms of scientific and technological action; title: From negotiation between social worlds to boundary objects; title: The socio-technical frame of reference; title: Socio-technical action and innovation; title: Everyday socio-technical action; title: Users' action; title: Socio-technical history; title: The time of technology; title: Technological time and choices; title: Evolutionism; title: Change and switch of paradigms; title: Long cycles; title: Technological imaginaire; title: Genealogical illusion; title: The slow birth of frames of reference; title: The social imaginaire of technology; title: The producers of imaginaire; title: Discourse of the imaginaire; title: Role of the imaginaire in the process of technological development; title: The personal computer imaginaire; title: Internet imaginaire; title: The birth of socio-technical frames; title: From technological imaginaire to frame of understanding; title: From social imaginaire to frame of use; title: The socio-technical frame of reference; title: Phases of innovation; title: Concurrent histories; title: The catchall-object; title: The boundary-object; title: Stability of the socio-technical frame; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Index.