How Business Enterprises Use Technology: Extending the Demand-Side Turn
本文指出商业史和技术史研究常忽视企业作为技术使用者的角色,呼吁更多关注企业实际使用技术的过程,对研究企业创新和技术应用的学者有参考价值。
Today, we are all aware of the importance of technology to modern business, including process technologies as well as consumer and industrial products incorporating technology. The significant role of technology in business (and vice versa) is not, of course, new. Although the history of technology and business history have different professional organizations and often focus on different theoretical and empirical phenomena, the large number of historians who work at the intersection of the two today reflects the importance of each to the other over a much longer time period. Yet historians of both types still too often give short shrift to the role of business enterprises as technology users as well as to the actual business use of technology.