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Human Relations, Vol. 47, No. 4, 367-392 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/001872679404700401

The Information Technology Field: Using Fields and Paradigms for Analyzing Technological Change

Andrew L. Friedmanl

Department of Economics, University of Bristol, Bristol, England.

The technology field is proposed as a concept which will allow us to analyze the history of substantial technologies and to make predictions about future developments. The history of information technology is analyzed as an example of a technology field. The technology field gives place both to "supply-side," "natural," technological trajectories, and to "demand-side" socioeconomic factors. Unlike the recently developed concept of technological paradigm, the technology field directs our attention to issues of management and work organization which accompany the diffusion of a major new technology.

Key Words: information technology • technology field • technology paradigm • technologists


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