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Title:
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The Co-Evolution of Institutions and Technology
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A Neo-Institutional Understanding of Change Processes within the Business Press - The Case Sudy of Financial Times |
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Author:
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Krogh-Meibom, Frederikke |
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Abstract:
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This dissertation examines dynamic processes between human actors and technology
that encourage institutional change displayed as the emergence of new work practices.
The research design is a micro-level analysis of a case study, conducted in 2002 in
London at Financial Times under the headline of the co-evolution of institutions and
technology. The study seeks to contribute to neo-institutional theory with a more
profound understanding of how institutional embedded actors generate new
institutional work practices when they interact with new technology. Two work
practices have been studied; the work practice of surveillance and the work practice of
publishing. These have been observed and studied as they were unfolding themselves
at ft.com at Financial Times. The actions of journalists working at ft.com has been the
empirical locus of the micro dynamic processes of changes of otherwise well defined
and taken-for-granted institutionalized work practices The findings specify how the
micro-dynamic mechanisms of change of work practices is related to the interaction of
human actors with new technology. The study of how individual human actors
institute changes to established work practices through a process of endogenization of
technology is the basis for a better understanding of institutional change and its
relation to human actors and their use of new technology. |
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URI:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7740
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Date:
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2009-02-23 |
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