Car Crashes Without Cars : Lessons about Simulation Technology and Organizational Change from Automotive Design.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Perceptions of Inevitability -- From Road to Lab to Math -- Simulation Technologies and the Scientific Culture of Prediction -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2. Between Technological and Organizational Change -- Developing New Technologies -- Using New Technologies -- Unintended Theoretical Consequences of the Implementation Line -- Imbrication of Social and Material Agencies -- Construction of Affordances and Constraints as Catalysts for Imbrication -- Chapter 3. Crashworthiness Analysis at Autoworks -- The Work -- The Technology -- The Organization -- Becoming an Insider at Autoworks -- CrashLab Development Activities -- Observing Analysts -- Observing the Implementation Process -- Some Notes on the Presentation of Data -- Chapter 4. Developing Problems and Solving Technologies -- Safety Division: The Accuracy Problem -- Techpro: The Speed Problem -- Information Systems and Services: The Capacity Problem -- Research and Development: The Credibility Problem -- Chapter 5. Articulating Visions of Technology and Organization -- Conceptual Integration -- Organizational Disengagement -- Technical Integration -- Chapter 6. Interpreting Relationships between the Social and the Material -- Creating Discursive Realities -- The Piston Group -- The Strut Group -- Chapter 7. Appropriating Material Features to Change Work -- Appropriating CrashLab's Features -- Enrolling CrashLab in Interaction -- Chapter 8. Organizing as a Process of Sociomaterial Imbrication -- A More Nuanced Understanding of Change -- Recapturing Choice -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A novel theory of organizational and technological change, illustrated by an account of the development and implementation of a computer-based simulation technology.

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