The production of bicycles in Britain and the United States recently suffered severe setbacks. The renowned American Schwinn brand was downgraded to the mass market by its new owners following bankruptcy, and Britain's Raleigh came close to closure because of high debts and poor returns, saved only by a last-minute management buyout. In both cases, market share and credibility were lost to newer, more innovative firms, as well as to a recentering of the global bicycle industry in the Far East. This book reflects on such changes by setting them within a sociological and historical context. It focuses on the British bicycle industry in the interwar years and in the 1980s and the 1990s—periods characterized by modernization of production and of industrial organization, by changing relations among players in the industry, by new developments in labor relations, and by changes in interactions between markets and product design. In particular, it traces the fortunes of the Raleigh Cycle Company from its beginnings as an innovative young firm, through massive expansion of its products and markets and the assimilation of many of its competitors, into further innovation amid market contraction and management inertia, and finally into a phase of global restructuring that has transformed and reduced its role within the industry. The book explores the complex ways in which product design, production methods, industrial organization, and the cultures of cycling have interacted to create a succession of sociotechnical frames for the bicycle. At the same time, on an activist level, the book promotes a participatory politics of bicycle technology and a less car-centered view of personal transportation.

Framing Production: Technology, Culture, and Change in the British Bicycle Industry (Inside Technology)

Business & Money

Rosen, Paul

Economics

Mit Pr

The production of bicycles in Britain and the United States recently suffered severe setbacks. The renowned American Schwinn brand was downgraded to the mass market by its new owners following bankruptcy, and Britain's Raleigh came close to closure because of high debts and poor returns, saved only by a last-minute management buyout. In both cases, market share and credibility were lost to newer, more innovative firms, as well as to a recentering of the global bicycle industry in the Far East.
This book reflects on such changes by setting them within a sociological and historical context. It focuses on the British bicycle industry in the interwar years and in the 1980s and the 1990s―periods characterized by modernization of production and of industrial organization, by changing relations among players in the industry, by new developments in labor relations, and by changes in interactions between markets and product design. In particular, it traces the fortunes of the Raleigh Cycle Company from its beginnings as an innovative young firm, through massive expansion of its products and markets and the assimilation of many of its competitors, into further innovation amid market contraction and management inertia, and finally into a phase of global restructuring that has transformed and reduced its role within the industry.
The book explores the complex ways in which product design, production methods, industrial organization, and the cultures of cycling have interacted to create a succession of sociotechnical frames for the bicycle. At the same time, on an activist level, the book promotes a participatory politics of bicycle technology and a less car-centered view of personal transportation.

Framing Production: Technology, Culture, and Change in the British Bicycle Industry (Inside Technology (Paperback))

Biography & History

MIT Press]

How does new information technology become part of the fabric of organisational life? Drawing on insights from social studies of technology, gender studies and the sociology of consumption, Valuing Technology opens up new directions in the analysis of sociotechnical change within organisations. Based on a major research project focused upon the introduction of management of information systems in health, higher education and retailing, I explores the active role of end-users in innovation.This book argues that it is through the , often difficult, engagement between users and technology that new computer systems come to gain value within organisations. Key themes developed through analysis of case studies include:*the valuing of technology via the on-going construction of needs, uses and utilities*occupational identities, organisational inequalities and technological change*the gendering of technological and organisational change*interpretive flexibility and the 'stabilisation' of technological systems and their incorporation into the lives of people in organisations.A stimulating blend of the theoretical and substantive, this book demands a radical redefinition of 'technology acquisition'. It's highly original approach makes Valuing Technology essential reading for students, lecturers and researchers within the fields of organisation studies and the sociology of technology.

Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture and Change (The Management of Technology and Innovation)

WEBSTER, Andrew

McLaughlin, Janice

Skinner, David

Management & Leadership

Routledge

A stimulating blend of the theoretical and substantive, this book demands a radical redefinition of 'technology acquisition'.

Computers & Technology

Accounting Applications for Spreadsheets

D D C Pub

Brother, Marvin

Accounting

DDC Publishing

Accounting Applications for Spreadsheets/Teachers Manual

Accounting Applications for Spreadsheets/Disk Available As 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 IBM Compatible

Never Give Up: The Meaning of My Life - The Paul Rosen Story

Lajoie, Roger

Health, Fitness & Dieting

FriesenPress

Gus Works for Kisses is the light-hearted story of a volunteer therapy dog named Gus who spends his days visiting patients and staff at a hospital and in outpatient clinics. Gus brings smiles to every person he comes in contact with, and is rewarded with bananas by grateful patients. Follow along with Gus in his adventures as a therapy dog in this book and on his own Instagram account, gus_the_therapy_dog.

Gus Works for Kisses: A friendly therapy dog who loves people and bananas

Children's Books

King, Maleah

Animals

HealingHoundsPublishing

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