Engineers and engineering history: problems and perspectives

Picon, Antoine

doi:10.1080/0734151042000304367

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“…Although being the case, there appears to be sparse research on ambidexterity situated firmly within the "management in engineering" domain. (Lynn, 2002;Shaw, 2002;Picon, 2004;Sousa-Poza and Kovacic, 2008) that have examined the agenda for engineering management research appear not to have expressed substantial interest on the topic, thus the intended contribution of our study.…”

Section: Articulation and Placementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational Ambidexterity: A Critical Review and Development of a Project-Focused Definition

Petro¹,

Ojiako

Williams

et al. 2019

J. Manage. Eng.

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The objective of this paper is to explore a project-focused understanding of contemporary organisational ambidexterity literature. As part of this process, a taxonomical analysis of the elements and components of the concept of organisational ambidexterity is undertaken. Findings suggest that a project-focused notion of organisational ambidexterity involves different levels, dimensions and mechanisms. The predominant contribution of this paper resides within the taxonomy study, which provides a platform for a more holistic understanding of organisational ambidexterity as a multifaceted concept applicable to the project management discipline. * Those studies marked with an asterisk (*) were the ones filtered through to step 6 of the systematic analysis

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Section: Articulation and Placementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational Ambidexterity: A Critical Review and Development of a Project-Focused Definition

Petro¹,

Ojiako

Williams

et al. 2019

J. Manage. Eng.

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“…Despite what its name suggests, the so-called ''Social Construction of Technology'' has shown that, while technology is socially constructed, technological organizations and objects often shape society and sociability. What may appear as purely political and social factors is often linked to technological determinations (Picon, 2004;cf. Bijker, 1995).…”

Section: French North Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

The development of irrigation design schools or how history structures human action

Ertsen

2007

Irrigation and Drainage

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Several approaches (''schools'') of irrigation development and design have developed in the last 200 years. Three important schools developed in the context of colonies: the Dutch in the former Netherlands East Indies, the British in former British India and Africa, the French in north-western Africa. Although circumstances for irrigation changed from colonial to post-colonial times, irrigation design and management practices in the post-colonial period remained largely based on colonial approaches. Engineering education is an important mechanism in this process of preference-guided selection of design solutions. In this contribution irrigation schools are conceptualized as technological regimes, which consist of explicit and implicit rules for irrigation design. The main conclusion is that design options available to modern engineers are the product of a contextualized development and selection process within a colonial context. This does not imply that artefacts from a certain context cannot be a welcome solution for a design problem in another context. A regime conceptualization emphasizes the importance of daily practice and routines as structuring factors in technological development. Recognizing such routine-based decision-making processes may not immediately lead to improvements in irrigation system design, but understanding irrigation design processes is a necessary first step to take for such improvement. RÉ SUMÉ Plusieurs approches (ou 'écoles') de développement et de conception d'irrigation se sont développées au cours des deux derniers siècles, dont des plus importantes dans un contextes colonial: l'école hollandaise en Indonésie, l'école britannique en Inde et en Afrique, et l'école Française en Afrique du Nord-Ouest. Bien que l'environnement de l'irrigation ait beaucoup changé depuis ce temps, les pratiques post-coloniales sont restées essentiellement basées sur ces approches coloniales. L'enseignement de l'ingénierie est un mécanisme important dans ce procédé de sélection préférentielle de solutions de conception: les écoles d'irrigation sont pensées comme des 'régimes technologiques', composés de règles explicites et implicites pour la conception de l'irrigation. La conclusion principale est que les options de conception dont disposent les ingénieurs modernes sont le produit d'un développement et d'une sélection appartenant à un contexte colonial. Ceci ne signifie pas que les objets venant d'un certain contexte ne sont pas les bienvenus pour résoudre un problème de conception dans un autre contexte. Une conceptualisation de régime accentue l'importance de la pratique et des routines quotidiennes comme autant de facteurs structurants dans le développement technologique. La reconnaissance des processus de prise de décision sur la base de routines peut ne pas conduire immédiatement à des améliorations dans la conception de systèmes d'irrigation, mais leur compréhension en est une première étape indispensable.

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“…With the rise of professional specialization in the twentieth century, the disciplines of engineering and urban design diverged and became autonomous (Schultz and McShane 1978;Melosi 2000). Water infrastructure became the purview of engineers; the domain of urban planners and designers was limited to the 'visible city', while infrastructure systems were relegated to the 'hidden city' of the engineers (Gandy 2004;Picon 2004). The planning and production of infrastructure became increasingly technocratic and standardized.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Water Infrastructure and Community Building: The Case of Marvin Gaye Park

Rosenberg

2015

Journal of Urban Design

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The contemporary redefinition of infrastructure as landscape proposes to address functional issues together with ecological, aesthetic and social concerns. Despite its claim to provide an integrative model, this discourse emphasizes ecological over social benefit. It is argued here that the underlying principles of this model-decentralization, site-specificity and multifunctionality-also have significant socio-cultural implications that relate to building community and enhancing place attachment. This paper will assess the social impact of the landscape infrastructure model by examining the relationship of water infrastructure to the social and cultural dynamics of urban communities through the case of Marvin Gaye Park, a stream valley park in Washington, DC.

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Engineers and engineering history: problems and perspectives

Cited by 67 publications

References 3 publications

Organizational Ambidexterity: A Critical Review and Development of a Project-Focused Definition

Organizational Ambidexterity: A Critical Review and Development of a Project-Focused Definition

The development of irrigation design schools or how history structures human action

Water Infrastructure and Community Building: The Case of Marvin Gaye Park

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