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Bibliography of Social Shaping of Information and Communications Technology
from : Robin Williams, 1996, The Social Shaping Of Information And Communications Technologies


Akrich, Madeleine (1992) 'Beyond social construction of technology: The shaping of people and things in the innovation process', Chapter 9, pp. 173 -190 in Dierkes and Hoffmann (eds.) op. cit..

Arthur, W. Brian (1989) 'Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events' The Economics Journal Vol. 99, (March), pp. 116-131.

Berg, Anne-Jorunn (1994a) 'Technological flexibility: Bringing gender into technology (or is it the other way around)? Chapter 5, pp. 94 - 110 in Cockburn, Cynthia and Furst-Dilic, Ruza (eds.) op. cit..

Berg, Anne-Jorunn (1994b) 'A gendered socio-technical construction: the smart house' Chapter 9 pp. 165 - 180, in Cockburn, Cynthia and Furst-Dilic, Ruza (eds.) op. cit..

Berg, Anne-Jorunn and Margrethe Aune (eds.) (1994) Domestic Technology and Everyday Life - Mutual Shaping Processes, COST A4 Vol. 1, Social Sciences, European Commission Directorate-General Sciences Research and Development, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Bijker, Wiebe & Law, John (eds.) (1992) Shaping Technology/Building Society: studies in socio-technical change Cambridge/MA, London: MIT Press.

Brady, Tim, Margaret Tierney and Robin Williams (1992) 'The Commodification of Industry Applications Software' Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 1 No. 3 pp. 489-514.

Bruce, Margaret (1988) 'Home Interactive Telematics - Technology with a History', in van Rijn, Felix and Williams, Robin (eds.) Concerning Home Telematics Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 83-93.

Campbell-Kelly, Martin (1989) ICL: a Business and Technical History, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cawson, Alan, Leslie Haddon and Ian Miles (1995) The Shape of Things to Consume: Delivering IT into the Home, Aldershot, Avebury.

Christoffersen, Mads and Bouwman, Harry (eds.), (1992) Relaunching Videotex, Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Clark, Peter & Staunton, Neil (1989) Innovation in Technology and Organization London: Routledge.

Clark, Peter and Newell, Susan (1993) 'Societal Embedding of Production and Inventory Control Systems: American and Japanese Influences on Adaptive Implementation in Britain', International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 69-81.

Cockburn, Cynthia (1993) 'Feminism/Constructivism in Technology Studies: Notes on Genealogy and Recent Developments' paper to workshop on European Theoretical Perspectives on New Technology: Feminism Constructivism and Utility Brunel University, September 1993.

Cockburn, Cynthia and Furst-Dilic, Ruza (eds.) (1994) Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Collingridge, David (1992) The Management of Scale: Big Organizations, Big Decisions, Big Mistakes London/NY: Routledge.

Collinson, Simon (1993) 'Managing product innovation at Sony: the development of the Data Discman'. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Vol.. 5, No. 3, pp. 285-306.

Collinson, Simon et al. (1996) Forecasting and Assessment of Multimedia in Europe 2010+, Final Report to European Commission, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.

Coopersmith, Jonathon (1993) 'Facsimile's false starts', IEEE Spectrum, February, pp. 46-49.

Cowan, Robin (1992) 'High technology and the economics of standardization' Chap. 14, pp. 279-300 in Dierkes and Hoffmann (1992), op. cit..

David, Paul (1975) Technical Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth: Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dierkes, Meinolf and Hoffmann, Ute (eds.) (1992) New Technology and the Outset: Social Forces in the Shaping of Technological Innovations Frankfurt/NY: Campus/Westview.

DTI/PA Consultants Group (1990) Manufacturing into the 1990s London, HMSO.

Dunlop, Charles and Rob Kling (eds.) (1991) Computerization and controversy : value conflicts and social choices, Boston : Academic Press,

Dutton, William, Jay Bloomler, Nicholas Garnham, Robin Mansell, James Cornford and Malcolm Peltu (1994) 'The Information Superhighway: Britain's Response', Policy Research Paper, No. 29, Programme on Information and Communications Technologies, Economic and Social Research Council.

Dutton, W. (1995) 'Driving into the future of telecommunications? Check the rear view mirror' Chap. 5. pp. 79 - 102, in Emmott, S.J. (ed,) Information Superhighways : Multimedia users and futures, London: Academic Press.

Fincham, Robin, Fleck, James, Procter, Robert, Scarbrough, Harry, Tierney, Margaret & Williams, Robin (1995) Expertise and Innovation: Information Strategies in the Financial Services Sector. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Clarendon.

Fischer, Claude (1992) America Calling. A social history of the telephone to 1940, Berkeley: University of California Press.

Fleck, James (1988a) 'Innofusion or Diffusation? The nature of technological development in robotics' Edinburgh PICT Working Paper No. 7, Edinburgh University.

Fleck, James (1988b) 'The Development of Information Integration: Beyond CIM?' Edinburgh PICT Working Paper No. 9, Edinburgh University. A digest of this paper, prepared for the Department of Trade and Industry, is available as 'Information-Integration and Industry', PICT Policy Research Paper No. 16, Economic and Social Research Council, Oxford, 1991.

Fleck, James (1993) 'Configurations : crystallizing contingency' International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing, Vol. 3, No. 1, p.15-36

Fleck, James (1994) 'Learning by trying: the implementation of configurational technology', Research Policy, Vol. 23, pp. 637 -652.

Fleck, James (1995) 'Configurations and standardization' pp. 38 - 65 in Esser, J. Fleischmann, G. and Heimer T. (eds) Soziale und Okonomische Konflicte in Standardisierungsprozessen, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.

Fleck, James, Webster, Juliet & Williams, Robin (1990) 'The Dynamics of IT implementation: a reassessment of paradigms and trajectories of development', Futures, Vol. 22, pp. 618-40.

Forester, T (1985) The Information Technology Revolution Oxford: Blackwell.

Fransman, M. (1996) 'Information regarding the Information Superhighway and interpretive ambiguity' IEEE Communications Magazine July 1996, pp. 76 - 80.

Freeman, Chris (1988) The Factory of the Future: the Productivity Paradox, Japanese Just-In-Time and Information Technology PICT Policy Research Paper No. 3, London: Economic and Social Research Council, Programme on Information and Communications Technologies.

Friedman, A. with Cornford, D. (1989) Computer Systems Development: History Organisation and Implementation Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Haddon, Leslie (1992) 'Explaining ICT Consumption: The case of the Home Computer' chap 5 pp. 82 - 96 in Silverstone and Hirsch (eds.) (1992).

Howells, John & Hine, Jim (eds.) (1993) Innovative Banking: Competition and the management of a new networks technology London/NY: Routledge.

Kahin, Brian, and James Keller (eds.) (1995) Public Access to the Internet Cambridge MA/London: MIT Press.

Kubicek, Herbert and Peter Seeger (1992) 'The negotiation of data standards: a comparative analysis of EAN- and EFTPOS- systems' chap 15, pp. 351 - 374 in Dierkes and Hoffmann (eds.) (1992).

MacKenzie, Donald & Wajcman, Judy (eds.) (1985) The Social Shaping of Technology: How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum Milton Keynes, Open University Press.

Miles, Ian (1990) Home Telematics: Information Technology and the Transformation of Everyday Life London: Frances Pinter.

Molina, Alfonso (1989) The Social Basis of the Microelectronics Revolution Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Molina, A. (1992) 'Competitive strategies in the microprocessor industry : the case of an emerging versus an established technology'. International Journal of Technology Management, 7, 6/7/8 [Special issue on the Strategic Management of Information and Telecommunication Technology], p.589-614

Molina, A. (1994) Understanding the emergence of a large-scale European initiative in technology Science and Public Policy 21, 1, p. 31 - 41.

Morris, Charles R. and Charles H Ferguson (1992) 'How Architecture Wins Technology Wars' Harvard Business Review Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 86 - 96.

Noble, David (1979) 'Social Choice in Machine Design: the case of Automatically Controlled Machine Tools', pp. 18-50, in Zimbalist, A.(ed.), Case Studies on the Labour Process New York: Monthly Review Press.

OECD (1985) Software: an emerging industry, Paris: Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development. .

Pelaez, Eloina (1990) 'What Shapes Software Development?' Edinburgh PICT Working Paper No. 10, Edinburgh University.

Pickering, Andrew (ed.) (1992) Science as Practice and Culture Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Pinch, Trevor & Bijker, Wieber (1984) 'The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 14, No. 3 (August), pp. 399-441.

R. N. Procter and R. Williams (1996) 'Beyond Design: Social Learning and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: some lessons from Innovation Studies', Chap. 26, pp. 445 - 464, in Shapiro, D., M. Tauber and R. Traunmueller (eds), (1996) The Design of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware Systems, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1996.

Quintas, Paul (ed.) (1993) Social Dimensions of Systems Engineering: People, Processes, Policies and Software Development, NY/London: Ellis Horwood.

Schneider, Volker et al., (1991) 'The Dynamics of Videotex Development in Britain, France and Germany: A cross-national comparison' European Journal of Communication Vol. 6 No. 2, June 1991

Senker, Peter (1987) Towards the Automatic Factory?: the need for training Bedford, IFS.

Silverstone, Roger (1991) 'Beneath the Bottom Line: Households and Information and Communication Technologies in an Age of the Consumer' PICT Policy Research Papers No. 17, Swindon: Economic and Social Research Council.

Silverstone, Roger & Morley, David (1990) 'Families and Their Technologies: two ethnographic portraits', pp. 74-83, in Putnam, Tim & Newton, Charles (eds.) Household Choices London: Futures Publications.

Silverstone, Roger and Eric Hirsch (eds.) (1992) Consuming technologies : media and information in domestic spaces, London : Routledge.

Simon, Herbert (1982) Models of bounded rationality (2 volumes) Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

Sørensen, Knut H and Berg, Anne-Jorun (eds.) (1992) Technologies and Everyday Life: Trajectories and Transformations, Proceedings from a Workshop in Trondheim, May 28-29 1990, Report No. 5, Oslo: Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities.

Sørensen, Knut H, (1994) 'Adieu Adorno: The Moral Emancipation of Consumers' pp. 157 - 169 in Berg and Aune (eds.) op. cit.

Spacek, Thomas (1995) 'How Much Interoperability?' Chapter 4 in this volume.

Spinardi, Graham, Ian Graham and Robin Williams, (1996) 'EDI and Business Process Re-enginering Why the Two Don't Go Together' New Technology, Work and Employment, March 1996 Vol. 11, no 1, pp. 16 - 27.

Swann, P. & Lamaison, H. (1989) 'The Growth of an IT Network: a Case Study of Personal Computer Applications Software', Discussion Papers in Economics, No. 8807, Brunel University.

Swann, P. (1990) 'Standards and the Growth of a Software Network', pp. 383-93, in J. L. Berg & H. Schumny (eds.) An Analysis of the Information Technology Standardization Process Amsterdam: Elsevier Science/North-Holland.

Thomas, Graham and Ian Miles (1990) Telematics in Transition London: Longman.

von Hippel (1990) 'The impact of "sticky data" on innovation and problem solving' Sloan School of Management Working Paper, 3147-90-BPS Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press.

van Rijn, Felix and Williams, Robin (eds.) (1988) Concerning Home Telematics Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Walsh, Vivien (1993) 'Demand, Public Markets and Innovation in Biotechnology' Science and Public Policy Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 138-156.

Webster, Juliet (1990) Office Automation: the labour process and women's work in Britain Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Webster, Juliet and Williams, Robin (1993) 'Mismatch and Tension: Standard Packages and Non-standard Users', Chapter 9, pp. 179 - 196, in P. Quintas (ed.), (1993).

Williams, Robin (1995) (ed.) The social shaping of inter-organisational IT systems and electronic data interchange COST A4 Vol. 3, Social Sciences, European Commission Directorate-General Sciences Research and Development, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Williams, Robin and Edge, David (1996) 'The Social Shaping of Technology', Research Policy, Vol.25, pp.865-99

Zuboff, Shoshana (1988) In the age of the smart machine : the future of work and power, Oxford: Heinemann.

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