Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 220
Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-0-7425-2004-2 • Paperback • April 2002 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
Govindan Parayil is associate professor and coordinator of the Information and Communications Management Programme at the National University of Singapore.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Historical Models
Chapter 3 Sociological Models
Chapter 4 Economic Models
Chapter 5 Neo-Schumpeterian and Evolutionary Models
Chapter 6 Technological Change as Problem-Solving
Chapter 7 Contingency and Practical Reflexivity
Chapter 8 Competing Models and Their Explanatory Power
Chapter 9 Technological Change as Knowledge Change: Toward a Syncretic Theory of Technological Change
Highly original and interesting. This is the first study to bring together and evaluate all the different strands of literature that address the issue of technological change. An ambitious and very significant contribution to the literature.
— Trevor Pinch, Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University