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In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power.
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This article is published in Academy of Management Executive.The article was published on 1989-02-01. It has received 89 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Work (electrical).read more
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"An organisation gets the intranet it deserves" : institutionalisation as a process of interplay between technology and its organisational context of use
TL;DR: The research analyses the role of micro-level processes of interplay in embedding an intranet in the formal functioning of an organisation and in the habits and routines of its employees.
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IT-enabled credit risk modernization: a revolution under the cloak of normality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case study based on a longitudinal case study conducted during 1993-1996 using an interpretive approach, which documents the introduction of a leading edge computer-based decision support system into middle market corporate lending processes in a major UK retail bank.
Cultural interface as an approach to new media art education
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of how a cultural interface approach to digital new media was introduced, implemented, and understood by teachers, with a range of technology backgrounds, and their students in the real-world environments of three public high-school art education classes is presented.
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Nanomanagement : superior control and subordinate autonomy in conflict : mid-level officers of the U.S. and British armies in Iraq (2003-2008)
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study of the U.S. and British armies in Iraq between 2003 and 2008, the authors explored the effect of nanomanagement on superior control with modern technology, where superiors use technology to control the actions of all their subordinates.
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Attitudes, beliefs and behaviour of lecturers: do they foster a climate of lifelong learning? A case of Papua New Guinea universities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate and analyse the Vision 2050 policy and the University policies to determine whether the need for lifelong learning; could be adopted and adapted as a key educational policy change in the PNG context.
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Theories of the Information Society
TL;DR: Webster as discussed by the authors examines what thinkers mean by an information society, and looks closely at different approaches to informational developments, concluding that, while there has undoubtedly been an information explosion, it is premature to conceive of an Information Society.
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Finding a happy medium: explaining the negative effects of electronic communication on social life at work
TL;DR: The results imply that negative social effects from using electronic communication technology may not prove easy to eradicate, despite technological developments such as multimedia integration, and despite efforts to train users in the best email “etiquette.”
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Cooperation, coordination and control in computer-supported work
TL;DR: NSF and DARPA have awarded over $15 million to the Corporation for National Research Initiative (CNRI) to create testbeds to perform research on the design and development of networks that operate with data rates of about one GB per second.
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Borderline issues: social and material aspects of design
John Seely Brown,Paul Duguid +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the shared use of artifacts is supported by latent border resources, which lie beyond what is usually recognized as the canonical artifact, and that designers now need to understand more fully the role border resources play and to work more directly to help users develop them.
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The Lure of the Virtual
TL;DR: Through a case study of an automobile manufacturer, it is shown how digital simulation technologies prompted a shift from symbolic to iconic representation of vehicle performance, and implications for the study of virtual work are drawn by examining how changes to work organization vary by type ofvirtual work.