Excerpt from Time as a Trigger for Organizational Change The study was carried out in three major geographic divisions-italy, West Germany, and the United States-and involved eight different plants. Forty-eight projects involving the introduction and use of new process technology (production machines and systems) were studied; due to missing data in seven cases, forty-one cases are included in the current sample. Projects were studied using three types of data. Description and experiences were obtained from detailed, semi ...
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Excerpt from Time as a Trigger for Organizational Change The study was carried out in three major geographic divisions-italy, West Germany, and the United States-and involved eight different plants. Forty-eight projects involving the introduction and use of new process technology (production machines and systems) were studied; due to missing data in seven cases, forty-one cases are included in the current sample. Projects were studied using three types of data. Description and experiences were obtained from detailed, semi-structured interviews. Interviews lasted from one to four hours and occurred between zero and 18 months after project completion. These one-on - one interviews were supplemented by multi-participant discussions whenever possible. Respondents included project managers, Operating and technical personnel, and plant and division managers. Project activities and their timing werereported on written questionnaires (see below). Participants were interviewed both before and after completing questionnaires to clarify their responses. In addition, the researcher had access to historical data in company and plant documents. (for further details. See Tyre and Hauptman, (1992) and Tyre and Orlikowski. Definition and Measurement of Organizational Change Activities. Adaptation activities at bba were defined as actions intended to modify the new technology or relevant aspects of the. Operating context (including users' skills or procedures, how activities were organized, Examples include debugging machine software, designing new tooling, training machine operators, or developing new maintenance procedures. Activities were considered part of normal production when the new technology was used with no effort to alter the hardware, software, or related context and procedures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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