Excerpt from The Politics of Technological Change; An Empirical Study: July, 1988 But, equally important, the debate over what is happening much less the debate over what might happen has also been hampered by a relative lack of attention to the actual processes by which organizations select and implement new production technologies. Failure to thoroughly investigate the process and the context of organizational decision-making around new technology has led to a situation in which a great deal is assumed (by theorists on both sides) about: (1) managerial rationality or irrationality in problem-selection and problem-solving. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.