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3rd Sociotechnical Lecture Series
Slides from past lectures can be found on:
http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm
· Apr 17th - (Business on the Line)
This lecture will be reporting on the preliminary outcomes from a major
series of interviews with eBusiness experts across the UK. Experts in
blue chip companies; SMEs; consultancies; trade unions; advisors; dot
com companies and other sectors were all interviewed. These interviews
investigated the current status and anticipated development of
eBusiness; the human and organisational issues relating to eBusiness;
and the main enablers and obstacles to success. The lecture will report
some early views on good practice. The interview panel consisted of
academics; researchers and business managers and members of this panel
will present the results to this lecture.
· May 15th - ANT or not? The social construction of an IS failure.
Dr Nathalie N. Mitev
London School of Economics
The analysis of the controversial introduction of a computerised
reservation
system draws on the sociology of technology and actor-network theory,
in particular symmetry and translation. Symmetry emphasises that
failures express the same dynamics as successes, showing that
technological choices are not obvious or unproblematic. The sociology of
translation helps combine both the global and the local in a series of
translations occurring in the case study, some of which having failed.
Social constructivism highlights how social and technical distinctions
are socially constructed, for instance in the conception and application
of yield management, which is also a matter of power and politics. To
complement actor-network theory, a critical analysis using Clegg's
circuits of power is used to examine how power relationships are
creating disadvantage and can explain failure further.
Venue:
Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road (opp. Baker Street tube)
Lecture Theatre 1 or 2
Luxborough Block
Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Cost: Free. All welcome!
Look out for further details of joint meetings with the BCS Consultancy
Special Group to come.
email Elayne Coakes - [log in to unmask] for further details
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