Section: Science Technology and Innovation Studies

Luciana D'Adderio

Name
Dr Luciana D'Adderio
Title
Research Fellow
Organisation
Science Technology and Innovation, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards Edinburgh UK
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 2454
E-Mail
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/stis/dadderio_l

Dr. Luciana D'Adderio is a Lecturer in Technology Management and an Innovation Fellow with the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) . She is currently working on her AIM Fellowship titled "Making Innovation Dependable (MInD): Validating Complex Technologies across the Network Organisation". More details about the Fellowship can be found on the dedicated website. Luciana was also recently a co-applicant on the ESRC-sponsored research project on “The Biography and Evolution of Standardised Software Packages”. She previously worked as a Research Fellow on the ESRC Innovation Programme at the Science and Technology Policy Research unit (SPRU, Sussex University) as well as on the interdisciplinary EPSRC Dependability IRC (DIRC) programme based at RCSS/ISSTI and the School of Informatics (Edinburgh).

 

Research Interests

    * micro-dynamics of organisational knowledge, learning and problem-solving

    * evolution of organisational routines and capabilities

    * dependable innovation and organisations

    * implementation and use of ICTs for Product/Process Design and Manufacturing

    * ethnographical observation at leading manufacturing organisations (Electronics, Software, Automotive and Aerospace)


Selected publications

Inside The Virtual Product. How Organizations Create Knowledge through Software (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar, 2004).

 

Crafting the Virtual Prototype: How Firms Integrate Knowledge and Capabilities Across Organisational Boundaries", Research Policy 30(2001): 1409-1424.

 

Configuring Software, Reconfiguring Memories: the Influence of Integrated Systems on the Reproduction of Knowledge and Routines, Industrial and Corporate Change 12(2) (2003): 321-350.

 

(with Neil Pollock and Robin Williams) Global Software and its provenance: Generification Work in the Production of Organizational Software Packages, forthcoming in Social Studies of Science

 

The Performativity of Routines: Theorising the Influence of Artefacts and Distributed Agencies on Routines Dynamics, Research Policy (in press)



Projects

AIM Fellowship; Biography; DIRC

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Working Papers


    * Crafting the Virtual Prototype [download]

    * Global Software and its Provenance [download]

    * Post Local Forms of Repair: The Case of Virtualised Technical Support [download]

    * The Performativity of Routines: Theorising the Influence of Artefacts and Distributed Agencies on Routines Dynamics [download]

This page was published on 3 November 2011


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