The order of technology: Complexity and control in a connected world

This paper examines some of the implications associated with the growing complexity of the contemporary world, consequent upon the expanding economic and organizational involvement of ICT-based systems and artefacts. Drawing on Luhmann, traditional forms of technological control are analyzed in term...

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Published in:	Information and organization Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 185 - 202
Main Author:	Kallinikos, Jannis
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2005 Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:	Connectivity Control Functional closure Functional simplification Information systems Information technology Organization Studies Technology Connectivity Control Organization Functional closure Technology Functional simplification
ISSN:	1471-7727, 1873-7919
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