Title: Analytical institutionalist inquiry into real time evaluation procedures for emerging technological information
Authors: Maurice A. Basle
Addresses: University of Rennes 1; Research Centre on Technology, Institutions and Globalization (CERETIM), CNRS, France.
Abstract: The emergence of new technological information is conditioned by a process of evaluation ex ante. In this process, the individual actor exercises a choice but the intelligent choice is beyond the purely internal or singular colloquium. The evaluation is the normal workings of a technological paradigm. It involves a deliberation from an invisible college of experts. This deliberation can be analysed from an institutionalist point of view. It appears that the evaluation is a human imperfect one.
Keywords: expertise; negotiational value; technological evaluation; technological control; technology management.
International Journal of Technology Management, 1995 Vol.10 No.4/5/6, pp.378 - 392
Published online: 23 May 2009 *
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