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100	1		_aHARRISON, Denis _94636
245	1	0	_aInnovation, identities and resistance : _bthe social construction of an innovation network
260			_c2002
520	3		_aThis paper explores the process of diffusion of a socio-technical innovation among workers of a large microelectonics firm. Actor-network theory (ANT), which draws on the sociology of science and technology, is applied to the analysis of socio-technical innovation in order to understand the actions of creating and putting the actors' arguments into action. Actors constructed and organized these arguments with the aim of diffusing innovation among workers whose support was essential to the project's success. The authors of the innovation project wanted to change the state of relations between different actors. In the present study, the aligment of identities was established according to the criteria defined by the managers and engineers but the expected benefits of the innovaton, in this case, technology and teamwork, were not automatically accepted. Network analysis reveals how persuasive arguments that repudiate the old reality and justify steps to create the new reality are constructed. This article will reveal how innovation is constituted and the form it takes by following the chain of arguments and the responses of the actors involved
700	1		_aLABERGE, Murielle _918410
773	0	8	_tJournal of Management Studies _g39, 4, p. 497-522 _d, 2002 _w
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998			_a20021210 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20060523 _b1517^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c9304 _d9304
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