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      Explaining the Selection of Routines for Change during Organizational Search

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      Administrative Science Quarterly
      SAGE Publications

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          Technology as an occasion for structuring: evidence from observations of CT scanners and the social order of radiology departments.

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          New medical imaging devices, such as the CT scanner, have begun to challenge traditional role relations among radiologists and radiological technologists. Under some conditions, these technologies may actually alter the organizational and occupational structure of radiological work. However, current theories of technology and organizational form are insensitive to the potential number of structural variations implicit in role-based change. This paper expands recent sociological thought on the link between institution and action to outline a theory of how technology might occasion different organizational structures by altering institutionalized roles and patterns of interaction. In so doing, technology is treated as a social rather than a physical object, and structure is conceptualized as a process rather than an entity. The implications of the theory are illustrated by showing how identical CT scanners occasioned similar structuring processes in two radiology departments and yet led to divergent forms of organization. The data suggest that to understand how technologies alter organizational structures researchers may need to integrate the study of social action and the study of social form.
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                Journal
                Administrative Science Quarterly
                Administrative Science Quarterly
                SAGE Publications
                0001-8392
                1930-3815
                October 31 2016
                December 2016
                July 07 2016
                December 2016
                : 61
                : 4
                : 551-583
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Cass Business School, City University London
                [2 ]EMLYON Business School
                [3 ]Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
                Article
                10.1177/0001839216653712
                9ef68dbe-eb38-4298-a6c8-41177dc49f5c
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