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An Institutional Approach to Technology

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Werle,  Raymund
Wissenschaft, Technik und Innovationssysteme, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Werle, R. (1998). An Institutional Approach to Technology. Science Studies, 11(1), 3-18.


Cite as: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-57DD-8
Abstract
Introduces Actor-Centered-Institutionalism (ACI), a variant of the institutionalist approach, to demonstrate the analytic power of conventional social theory in the field of Science, Technology and Society studies. History of the Social Construction of Technology approach; Illustration of the ACI approach; Examples from the process of organized international standardization in telecommunications and information technology.