Not available in 2018/19
MG511      Half Unit
Technology, Practice and Institutions

This information is for the 2018/19 session.

Teacher responsible

Prof Jannis Kallinikos NAB 3.24

Availability

This course is compulsory on the MRes/PhD in Management (Information Systems and Innovation). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Course content

The course will deal with the restructuring of social practices associated with the involvement of technologies of computing and communication in social and organisational life. These ideas will be explored within the context of established institutional fields such as finance, law or health care but it will consider as well the advent of new practices (social media, big data) and the organisational forms within which such practices are accommodated.

Teaching

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the MT.

Formative coursework

Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the MT.

Indicative reading

Arthur, B. W. (2009). The Nature of Technology, What it Is and How it Evolves. London: Allen Lane.

Ciborra, C. (2006). Imbrication of representations: Risk and Digital Technologies. Journal of Management Studies, 43(6), 1339–1356.

Greenwood, R., Diaz, A. M., Li, S. X., & Lorente, J. C. (2010). The Multiplicity of Institutional Logics and the Heterogeneity of Organizational Responses. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(4), 1–19.

Kallinikos, J, Hasselbladh, H. and Marton, A. (2013) Governing Social Practice: Technology and Institutions, Theory and Society, 42/4: 395-421.

Leonardi, P. M. (2011): When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies:  Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies. MIS Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 147-167.

Labatut, Julie, Franck Aggeri, and Nathalie Girard (2012): Discipline and Change: How Technologies and Organizational Routines Interact in New Practice Creation. Organization Studies 33/1: 39-69.

Lessig, L. (2006). Code: Version 2.0. New York: Basic Books

Lounsbury, Michael, and Ellen T. Crumley (2007) "New Practice Creation: An Institutional Perspective on Innovation." Organization Studies 28/7: 993-1012.

Assessment

Essay (100%, 7000 words) in the MT.

Key facts

Department: Management

Total students 2017/18: Unavailable

Average class size 2017/18: Unavailable

Value: Half Unit

Guidelines for interpreting course guide information

Personal development skills

  • Self-management
  • Team working
  • Problem solving
  • Communication
  • Specialist skills