The Role of Personal and Professional Networks in the Process of Technological Transformation

Bibliographic Data

ID3758722
AuthorsJesper Norus (Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume40
Issue4
Pages514-522
Publication date1997-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764297040004013
OpenAlexW2065272260
LanguageEN
References cited13

This article deals with the role of network relations among professional actors in the process of technological transformation. Special attention is given to the role of professions in shaping individual behavior. The case presented shows how a collective strategy obtained by a group of dairy technicians has been able to institutionalize a set of routines of how to solve technological problems and develop new products through extensive network activities among a juice company, the local dairies, and metal shops producing equipment for dairies. Despite strong commitment to a new organizational goal in the juice company, the professional routines of the dairy technicians were able to cause the goal to fail and thereby preserve their dominating role in the organization

Business · Knowledge management · Political science · Process (computing) · Public relations · Set (abstract data type) · Technological change · Transformation (genetics) · Business Strategy and Innovation · Computer Science · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Marketing

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