Technological change

✍ Scribed by Coron, Clotilde; Gilbert, Patrick

• Publisher: ISTE-Wiley
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Series: Innovation entrepreneurship management series. Technological changes and human resources set Volume 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-Title Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 5
Copyright Page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
I.1.1. Technical, technological and technical objects......Page 11
I.1.2. How can we address technological change? First elements......Page 14
I.2.1. Three pillars......Page 18
I.2.2. Contributions of the human and social sciences (HSS)......Page 20
I.3. Structure of the book......Page 24
1.1. Approaches to technological change......Page 25
1.1.1. Technological determinism......Page 26
1.1.2. Social constructivism......Page 38
1.1.3. Joint structuring of technical and social aspects......Page 43
1.2. A brief history of technological change......Page 51
1.2.1. How can we tell the story?......Page 52
1.2.2. At the origins of the Industrial Revolution (from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance)......Page 54
1.2.3. The First Industrial Revolution (end of the 18th Century)......Page 56
1.2.4. The Second Industrial Revolution (late 19th Century to the 1910s)......Page 58
1.2.5. The Computer Revolution (from the late 1960s to the 1990s)......Page 60
1.2.6. The Digital Revolution (early 21st Century)......Page 62
2. Technological Change and Society......Page 67
2.1.1. Fundamentals of political analysis and technology......Page 68
2.1.2. The role of the State......Page 69
2.1.3. Technological change in the age of globalization......Page 74
2.1.4. The dark side of technology......Page 76
2.2.1. Ethical evaluation of technology......Page 81
2.2.2. Three ethical issues under discussion......Page 84
2.3. Technological change and diversity......Page 90
2.3.1. Inclusive technology/exclusive technology......Page 91
2.3.2. Technologies that reflect their designers......Page 99
2.4.1. Technology, an answer to ecological challenges?......Page 102
2.4.2. Technology as a source of ecological degradation?......Page 106
3.1. Omnipresence of the technical object in work activities......Page 111
3.1.1. The R&D function in the lead1......Page 112
3.1.2. Marketing challenged by digital transformation......Page 113
3.1.3. Factory 4.0......Page 114
3.1.4. e-HR......Page 117
3.2.1. Technological change and organizational structure......Page 119
3.2.2. Technological change, and financial and human resources for innovation......Page 124
3.3.1. Prescriptive and assistive technologies......Page 128
3.3.2. Technological ambivalence: the same technology for empowerment and control purposes......Page 135
3.4. Technological change as a social process......Page 137
3.4.1. Changes in the social entity and management methods......Page 138
3.4.2. Support for employees whose activities are threatened by technological change......Page 145
3.4.3. The actors of technological change in organizations......Page 151
4. Technological Change and the Individual......Page 159
4.1.1. The technical object in the activity system......Page 160
4.1.2. The technical object and its mediations......Page 162
4.2.1. The individual in the design phase......Page 166
4.2.2. The individual in the adoption phase3......Page 168
4.2.3. The individual in the use phase......Page 172
4.2.4. The individual between subject and object......Page 175
4.3.1. Variable effects depending on the technological equipment......Page 178
4.3.2. The emergence of new work characteristics......Page 179
4.3.3. The growth of telework......Page 180
4.4.1. Skills and their production......Page 182
4.4.2. Digital skills as frames of reference......Page 185
4.4.3. No digital skills outside the activity......Page 187
5. Experiencing Technological Change......Page 189
5.1.1. Overview of threats and opportunities associated with technological change......Page 190
5.1.2. Threats and opportunities also concerning work organizations......Page 192
5.2. Reconciling technical and social issues......Page 195
5.2.1. Social or responsible innovations: definitions and examples......Page 196
5.2.2. Responsible technological innovations within organizations......Page 203
5.3.1. Organizational change management......Page 207
5.3.2. The specificities of technological change......Page 213
5.3.3. An integrative scheme for the management of responsible technological change......Page 224
References......Page 227
Index......Page 243
Other titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management......Page 245
EULA......Page 257