Getting New Technologies Together : : Studies in Making Sociotechnical Order / / ed. by Barend van der Meulen, Cornelis Disco.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bruhèze, Adri A. de la,; Disco, Cornelis,; Duncker, Elke,; Elzen, Boelie,; Enserink, Bert,; Hilgartner, Stephen,; Lente, Harro van,; Meulen, Barend van der,; Meuten, Barend van der,; Oost, Ellen van,; Poel, Ibo van de,; Rip, Arie,; Smit, Wim A.,; Stemerding, Dirk,; Talma, Siebe,
• HerausgeberIn: Disco, Cornelis,; Meulen, Barend van der,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 82
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Coordination of Ship Propeller Design: Technical Models and the Relation of T. Y. Draco with Queen Elizabeth ΙI
• Chapter 2. Means of Coordination in Making Biological Science: On the Mapping of Plants, Animals, and Genes
• Chapter 3. Coordination in Military Socio-technical Networks: Military Needs, Requirements and Guiding Principles
• Chapter 4. Getting an Experiment Together in High Energy Physics: Big Plans, Big Machines, and Bricolage
• Chapter 5. Why Are Chickens Housed in Battery Cages?
• Chapter 6. Aligning Gender and New Technology: The Case of Early Administrative Automation
• Chapter 7. Expectations in Technological Developments: An Example of Prospective Structures to be Filled in by Agency
• Chapter 8. Boundary Maintenance and Radioactive Waste Disposal Technology in the U.S., 1945–1970
• Chapter 9. Meaningful Boundaries: Symbolic Representations in Heterogeneous Research and Development Projects
• Chapter 10. Antagonistic Patterns and New Technologies
• Chapter 11. Getting Case Studies Together: Conclusions on the Coordination of Sociotechnical Order
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index