Technological change, organizational change, and job turnover

Organizational Networks and Technological Change

A Technological Frames Perspective on Information Technology and Organizational Change

When information technologies (IT) have a central role in organizational change programs , understanding how organization members make sense of technology is critical to influencing their actions and to achieving planned outcomes. Orlikowski and Gash articulated a theoretic framework centered on technological frames of reference (TFR) to investigate interpretive processes related to IT in organ...

Technological Change and Technological Strategy

\: Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Technological Change in the Production Process: Organizational Implications and Responses Technological Change in the Production Process: Organizational Implications and Responses Technological Change in the Production Process; Organizational Implications and Responses

The introduction of new process technologies can cause significant disruption to ongoing operations. This paper examines the sources of such disruption and attempts to identify organizational response mechanisms effective in countering them. To better understand the nature of organizational tasks involved, two distinct characteristics of technological change -technical complexity and systemic s...

Job Loss and Job Change

All three papers deal with important policy issues. Ruhm, whose analysis ranges the most widely, goes furthest in recommending policy activism. Podgursky and Swaim (P&S) are somewhat more re strained, but it is clear that they too favor special assistance for displaced workers. In our own paper we see advantage in workers being given notification of their impending redundancy in the specific co...