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Inside The Virtual Product |
Luciana D’Adderio, Senior Research Fellow, RCSS/Institute for Studies of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI), University of Edinburgh, UK
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| 2004 |
256 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 84376 210 2 |
£65.00 |
on-line discount
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‘This is a very insightful book concerning a very real and important issue: how do software and organizations relate to each other? The volume is unique in its well-thought out and advanced approach, and I have no doubt it will open the eyes of many scholars.’
– Hariolf Grupp, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research and Karlsruhe Technical University, Germany
What is the influence of software systems on an organization’s ability to create knowledge, learn, adapt to change and innovate? While organization, management and innovation theory has primarily focused on the impact of software on measures such as process efficiency and speed, this book argues that integrated systems and digital technologies offer even more fundamental implications for the innovating firm.
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Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Knowledge in Theory and in Practice 3. Distributed Knowledge, Situated Action: The Role of Qualitative Analysis and Participant-Observation in Organizational Knowledge Research 4. Integrated Software Systems: The Technology and its Embedded Assumptions 5. The Influence of Integrated Systems on Organizational Memory 6. Bridging Formal Tools with Informal Practices: How Organizations Balance Flexibility and Control 7. Crafting the Virtual Prototype: How Firms Integrate Knowledge and Capabilities Within and Across Organizational Boundaries 8. Conclusions References Index
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This book is part of the New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation series. To view the rest of the series, please use the link.
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