READING THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY TO UNDERSTAND THE MECHANIZATION OF VALUES AND ITS ONTOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Lindebaum, Dirk; Moser, Christine; Ashraf, Mehreen; Glaser, Vern L.
• 署名单位: Grenoble Ecole Management; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Cardiff University; University of Alberta
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2021.0159
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 575-592
• 关键词: PHILIP SELZNICK; management; neuroscience; rationality; ORGANIZATIONS; PERSPECTIVES; REFLECTIONS; leadership; science; essay

摘要

In this essay, we review Jacques Ellul's (1964) book The Technological Society to highlight technique-the book's central phenomenon- and its theoretical relevance for organizational and institutional theorists. Technique is defined as the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency ... in every field of human activity in society (Ellul, 1964: xxv, emphasis added). More than simply machine technology, technique involves the rational pursuit of standard-ized means or practices for attaining predetermined