The Shaping of Automation: A Historical Analysis of the Interaction Between Technology and Organization 1950–1985, Dirk de Wit, <i>Hilversum, Uitgeverij Verloren, 1994, 409 pp., f 69, ISBN 9 0655 0414 1</i>

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The Shaping of Automation: A Historical Analysis of the Interaction Between Technology and Organization 1950–1985, Dirk de Wit, Hilversum, Uitgeverij Verloren, 1994, 409 pp., f 69, ISBN 9 0655 0414 1

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Publication date (Print): December 1997

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Pages: 422-424

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Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes & Trevor J. Pinch, (Eds), The Social Construction of Technological Systems, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987.
Barry Barnes, Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1974.
Donald Mackenzie, Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.
Edward A. Constant II, ‘The social locus of technological practice, community, system or organization?’ in Bijker, Hughes & Pinch op. cit., Ref. 1, pp. 223–242.
Mackenzie, op. cit., Ref. 3.
Stuart S. Blume, Insight and Industry: On the Dynamics of Technological Change in Medicine, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.

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[1] Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes & Trevor J. Pinch, (Eds), The Social Construction of Technological Systems, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987.

[2] Barry Barnes, Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1974.

[3] Donald Mackenzie, Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.

[4] Edward A. Constant II, ‘The social locus of technological practice, community, system or organization?’ in Bijker, Hughes & Pinch op. cit., Ref. 1, pp. 223–242.

[5] Mackenzie, op. cit., Ref. 3.

[6] Stuart S. Blume, Insight and Industry: On the Dynamics of Technological Change in Medicine, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.