Excerpt from Task Characteristics and Organizational Problem Solving in Technological Process Change Research during the last decade has shaken established assumptions about the nature and process of technological change in manufacturing. The introduction of new production processes and equipment was once conceived as a relatively straightforward task of implementing well-defined technical solutions into a static organizational environment (rice and Rogers, 1980; Lyles and Mitroff, More recent research suggests that this ...
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Excerpt from Task Characteristics and Organizational Problem Solving in Technological Process Change Research during the last decade has shaken established assumptions about the nature and process of technological change in manufacturing. The introduction of new production processes and equipment was once conceived as a relatively straightforward task of implementing well-defined technical solutions into a static organizational environment (rice and Rogers, 1980; Lyles and Mitroff, More recent research suggests that this simplified view ignores the ongoing process of reinvention and adaptation by users (rice and Rogers, In fact, ongoing problem solving is central to organizations' efforts to prepare for and utilize new process technology (kazanjian and Drazin, 1986; Gerwin, 1988; leonard-barton, 1988) Technological, organizational, and managerial changes are often needed before new process technologies can be fully utilized (jelinek and Goldhar, 1984. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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