Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

Volume I The Early Debates, Volume II Theories, Concepts and Paradigms, Volume III Critical Empirical Studies, Volume IV Towards âReal Virtualityâ?

Volume I

1. R. Blauner Alienation and freedom in historical perspective Alienation and Freedom [1964]

2. T. Burns and G. Stalker Mechanistic and organic systems of management The Management of Innovation [1961]

3. J. Woodward Technology, organization and success

4. A.N. Turner Management and the assembly line Harvard Business Review [1955]

5. E.L. Trist and K.W. Bamforth Some social and psychological consequences of the longwall method of coal-getting Human Relations [1951]

6. L.E. Davis and J.C. Taylor Technology, organization and job structure Handbook of Work, Organization and Society [1976]

7. H.J. Leavitt and T.L. Whisler Management in the 1980s

8. I.R. Hoos When the computer takes over the office

9. E. Mumford and O. Banks Change and its consequences The Computer and the Clerk [1967]

10. R. Stewart How computers affect management

11. A. Pettigrew The disparity of demands in an innovative decision process The Politics of Organizational Decision-making [1973]

12. H. Braverman Machinery Labour and Monopoly Capital: the Degredation of Work in the Twentieth Century [1974]

13. R. Edwards Technical control: an all-round adjustor and equalizer Contested Terrain: the Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century [1979]

14. M. Cooley Political implications of new technology Architect or Bee? The Human/Technology Relationship [1980]

15. D.F. Noble Social choice in machine design: the case of automatically controlled machine tools Case Studies on the Labour Process [1979]

16. C. Perrow The organizational context of human factors engineering Administrative Science Quarterly [1983]

17. D. Gallie The control of work performance In Search of the New Working Class [1978]

18. J. Child Management strategies, new technology and the labour process Job Redesign [1985]

19. R.J. Thomas Politics and technology What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise [1994]

20. L. Winner Do artifacts have politics? Daedalus [1980]

21. R. Williams and D. Edge The social shaping of technology [1996]

22. J. Wacjman Feminist critiques of science and technology Feminism Confronts Technology [1991]

23. I. McLoughlin and J. Clark New technology, work tasks and skills Technological Change at Work [1994]

24. S. Zuboff The limits of hierarchy in an informated organization In the Age of the Smart Machine [1988]

25. B. Latour Opening Pandora's black box Science in Action: how to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society [1987]

26. T.J. Bijker and W.E. Pinch The social construction of facts and artifacts: or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology of History and Technology [1987]

27. K. Grint and S. Woolgar What's social about being shot? The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization [1997]

28. W.J. Orlikowski The duality of technology: rethinking the concept of technology in organizations Organizational Science [1992]

29. K.E. Weick Technology as equivoque: sensemaking in new technologies Technology and Organizations [1990]

30. R. Kaplinsky Forms of automation/inter-sphere automation - the factory of the future

31. Building a model of the phases of computerization growth History, Organization and Implementation

32. C. Freeman and C. Perez Structural crises of adjustment, business cycles and investment behaviour Technical Change and Economics