John Benjamins Publishing Company
Technology and the management imagination
Abstract
This paper explores the evolution of the techno-management imagination (TMI). This is the process by which, in times of crisis, managers think not just out of the box, but out of the very reality in which the box resides. Tacit social consensus, also known as corporate culture, can lead to a shared, implicit, and incorrect view that certain actions are impossible. TMI transcends local culture, accessing technological solutions that are unknown and/or unimagined. Members of the organization tend to call such solutions “magic”. The paper looks at social, perceptual, and managerial aspects of magic from a practical point of view that is grounded in research. It examines the risks of TMI, and concludes with suggested perspectives and research questions for management scientists and cognitive scientists.
Abstract
This paper explores the evolution of the techno-management imagination (TMI). This is the process by which, in times of crisis, managers think not just out of the box, but out of the very reality in which the box resides. Tacit social consensus, also known as corporate culture, can lead to a shared, implicit, and incorrect view that certain actions are impossible. TMI transcends local culture, accessing technological solutions that are unknown and/or unimagined. Members of the organization tend to call such solutions “magic”. The paper looks at social, perceptual, and managerial aspects of magic from a practical point of view that is grounded in research. It examines the risks of TMI, and concludes with suggested perspectives and research questions for management scientists and cognitive scientists.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- About the authors ix
- Introduction 1
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Articles
- Making faces with computers 9
- Perceptual recalibration in sensory substitution and perceptual modification 29
- Distributed processes, distributed cognizers and collaborative cognition 47
- Robotics, philosophy and the problems of autonomy 61
- Technology and the management imagination 79
- Information and mechanical models of intelligence 109
- Is cognition plus technology an unbounded system? Technology, representation and culture 127
- Radical Empiricism, Empirical Modelling and the nature of knowing 155
- Index 185
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- About the authors ix
- Introduction 1
-
Articles
- Making faces with computers 9
- Perceptual recalibration in sensory substitution and perceptual modification 29
- Distributed processes, distributed cognizers and collaborative cognition 47
- Robotics, philosophy and the problems of autonomy 61
- Technology and the management imagination 79
- Information and mechanical models of intelligence 109
- Is cognition plus technology an unbounded system? Technology, representation and culture 127
- Radical Empiricism, Empirical Modelling and the nature of knowing 155
- Index 185
