Technology and Organization

Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward

Nelson X. Phillips, Dorothy Griffiths, Graham Sewell, Michael Lounsbury

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781849509848
• eBook ISBN:
  9781849509855
• Topic: Betriebswirtschaft
• Subtopic: Organizational Behavior

It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies. Professor Woodward died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publication of her landmark book "Industrial Organization". At the time of her death, Professor Woodward was the Chair in Industrial Sociology at Imperial College London, having been elected as only the second women professor at the College in 1970. She joined the Production Engineering and Management Section of Imperial in 1958 and the majority of her most important work was published during this period. Prior to this she had spent a number of years at the South East Essex College of Technology where she conducted much of the empirical work that informed her significant contributions to the field.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Advisory board
• Preface
• Section 1 – Introduction
• Section 2 – Personal Reflections on Joan Woodward
• Section 3 – Studies in Technology and Organization
• Section 4 – Short Essays in Technology and Organization