Technology Choice

Author : Diane E. Bailey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028425
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology Choices written by Diane E. Bailey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work. Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and communication technologies essential, allowing him to work with far-flung colleagues; a structural engineer in California relies more on paper-based technologies for her everyday work; and a software engineer in Silicon Valley operates on multiple digital levels simultaneously all day, continuing after hours on a company-supplied home computer and network connection. In Technology Choices, Diane Bailey and Paul Leonardi argue that occupational factors—rather than personal preference or purely technological concerns—strongly shape workers' technology choices. Drawing on extensive field work—a decade's worth of observations and interviews in seven engineering firms in eight countries—Bailey and Leonardi challenge the traditional views of technology choices: technological determinism and social constructivism. Their innovative occupational perspective allows them to explore how external forces shape ideas, beliefs, and norms in ways that steer individuals to particular technology choices—albeit in somewhat predictable and generalizable ways. They examine three relationships at the heart of technology choices: human to technology, technology to technology, and human to human. An occupational perspective, they argue, helps us not only to understand past technology choices, but also to predict future ones.

Author : Kelvin W Willoughby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000314162
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology Choice written by Kelvin W Willoughby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to provide a theoretical framework for answering difficult questions evoked by the concept of technology choice primarily by conducting a review of the Appropriate Technology movement and its ideas and experiments.

Author : Gustav Ranis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134919140X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Technology Choice in Development written by Gustav Ranis and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shan Ling Li
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429835108
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Investment Planning with Technology Choice in Manufacturing Systems written by Shan Ling Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994 this book examines problems related to investment planning, capacity additions, and choice of technology in dynamic manufacturing systems characterized by multiple products, dynamic demand growth, uncertainty in demand and availability of alternative technologies. A model-based methodology is developed that focuses on trade-offs between flexible and conventional technology. The research conducted for this book is directed to the development of tools to support investment decisions in production capacity over medium and long-term planning horizons.

Author : Kory Kogon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476711828
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 5 Choices written by Kory Kogon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time management has been redefined for the twenty-first century. Learn how to increase your productivity by mastering five choices that will leave you feeling confident, energized, and productive.

Author : Ellen Karoline Henriksen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9400777930
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Student Participation and Choice in Science and Technology Education written by Ellen Karoline Henriksen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on data generated by the EU’s Interests and Recruitment in Science (IRIS) project, this volume examines the issue of young people’s participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. With an especial focus on female participation, the chapters offer analysis deploying varied theoretical frameworks, including sociology, social psychology and gender studies. The material also includes reviews of relevant research in science education and summaries of empirical data concerning student choices in STEM disciplines in five European countries. Featuring both quantitative and qualitative analyses, the book makes a substantial contribution to the developing theoretical agenda in STEM education. It augments available empirical data and identifies strategies in policy-making that could lead to improved participation—and gender balance—in STEM disciplines. The majority of the chapter authors are IRIS project members, with additional chapters written by specially invited contributors. The book provides researchers and policy makers alike with a comprehensive and authoritative exploration of the core issues in STEM educational participation.

Author : Pierre Lemonnier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134523068
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technological Choices written by Pierre Lemonnier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological Choices applies the critical tools of archaeology to the subject of technology and its impact on humankind throughout the ages. An examination of the challenges technological innovations present to various cultures, Technological Choices asserts that in any society, such choices are made on the basis of cultural values and social relations, rather than on the inherent benefits in technology itself. Of course, this revolutionary viewpoint has critical implications for contemporary Western societies. Based on case studies covering a wide range of chronologies and geographies, Technological Choices moves rapidly from Neolithic Europe to the modern industrial age, stopping on the way to examine the tribes of Papua, New Guinea, rural Indian and North African societies as well as several European peasant communities. The techniques studied range from the manufacture of stone implements to the development of high-tech transportation devices. With its breadth of subject matter and multidisciplinary approach, Technological Choices offers new insight into the interrelationship between technology and society. Also unprecedented is the book's emphasis on the functional aspects of material culture.

Author : Gerard Karel Boon
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789028605206
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology Transfer in Fibres, Textiles and Apparel written by Gerard Karel Boon and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1979-02-28 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 0889367906
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology Policy and Practice in Africa written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1995 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology Policy and Practice in Africa

Author : United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Development Information and Utilization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appropriate Technology written by United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Development Information and Utilization and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: