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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"technology theory"”.
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Evaluating investments in information technology : theory versus practice
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Using web data and services : technology, theory and evidence
… on the Web. It is necessary to develop advanced technology facilitating the use of Web data and services and to understand what impacts on firms and individuals would be. This thesis, composed of three essays, aims to explore (1) what technology could be developed to facilitate using Web data and …
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Older adults' user experiences with mobile phones: identification of user clusters and user requirements
… participated in this study. The domestication of technology theory was adopted as a framework to describe instances and themes represented in users' utterances and behaviors. Results showed that, regardless of their abilities to operate technology, older adults used a limited number of mobile …
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Alutiiq Engineering: The Mechanics and Design of Skeletal Technologies in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago
… The results are applicable to processes of technology transfer in many protohistoric contexts and the Upper Paleolithic of Eurasia.
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From Lancashire to Bombay: Commercial Networks, Technology Diffusion, and Business Strategy in the Bombay Textile Industry
This thesis is an analysis of technology diffusion and the long-run institutional impact of the nature of that diffusion. It examines how a growing commercial trading relationship with Lancashire-based millwrights enabled textile industrialisation in late 19th century Bombay, and reflects upon the …
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Interruption events and sensemaking processes: A narrative analysis of older people's relationships with computers
… of the ways in which the reality of a new technology is socially constructed. In particular, it examines how members of the aged interpretive community made sense of the computer as an interruption event, a technology not yet routinised as part of their everyday taken-for-granted reality, …
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Effect of technological innovation and application on SMEs in Pakistan: an overview of the dairy sector
… extends the existing framework of Dependency Theory and Appropriate Technology Theory. These theories have been selected for particular emphasis here because they deal explicitly with the choice of techniques in developing countries. Moreover, taken together, they address, or allow being …
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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools
… an effort to ‘give intellectual status to technology for the first time’. This study reconsiders the significance of the mechanical arts for schoolmen working in northern France in the twelfth century. It argues that while this category designated a set of everyday technologies, it also had …