Discourse and sociotechnical transformation : the emergence of refinery information systems
This thesis considers the emergence and diffusion of British Petroleum's (BP) Refinery Information Systems (RIS). Insights from the associology of translation are coupled with the Foucauldian concepts of discourse and power/knowledge in order to analyse accounts of the system provided by organi...
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University of Edinburgh
1993
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653899 |