著者

木佐森 健司

出版者

日本情報経営学会

雑誌

日本情報経営学会誌 (ISSN:18822614)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.33, no.2, pp.96-106, 2012-11-30

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Technology research has until the present aimed at understanding technology as an artificial matter constituted by physical elements and social elements in order to avoid treating technology as a physical cause of change. However, when technology is perceived as a network formed by different kinds of material as black boxes, the merkmals which characterize technology are vanish, leading to the disappearance of the technology. This article deduces a plan to recover the technology which has been vanished as an object of analysis in technology research by a rereading of the actor-network theory. Under this framework, the path will be found to recover the vanished technology from an analysis of the institutionalization of technical innovation in the making of the NC lathe machine tool market.

著者

木佐森 健司

出版者

日本情報経営学会

雑誌

日本情報経営学会誌 (ISSN:18822614)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.2, pp.64-75, 2009-01-20

被引用文献数

1

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In recent management information studies, actor-network theory (ANT) drew attention as the theoretical framework for understanding the increasingly sophisticated practice of information management that is neither purely technological nor social and to reexamine the dichotomy. However, this paper observes the revival of micro/macro and society/technology dichotomies in management information research based on ANT. In this paper, I shed light on the theoretical reason behind problems and the potential value of ANT in AIS.