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. The social construction of technology is based upon the belief that technologies are a product of which factor?

Social correct incorrect

Cultural correct incorrect

Material correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Weick's idea that 'new technologies' experience more unexpected interruptions is central to his characterization of them as:

Continuous correct incorrect

Intensive correct incorrect

Stochastic correct incorrect

Abstract correct incorrect

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. Reciprocal task interdependence occurs among:

The workers. correct incorrect

A basketball team. correct incorrect

The branch offices of a successful bank. correct incorrect

The workers, a basketball team and the branch offices of a successful bank. correct incorrect

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. In comparison to products, services are all but which of the following?

Intangible correct incorrect

Produced and consumed at the same time correct incorrect

Unable to be stored correct incorrect

Capital intensive correct incorrect

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. Woodward found that successful companies using mass production technology are likely to differ from those that use unit of continuous process technologies in that:

Their structures will be more organic. correct incorrect

Their structures will be more mechanistic. correct incorrect

Their technologies are more complex. correct incorrect

None of the above. correct incorrect

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. In Woodward's study, successful continuous processing organizations had similar spans of control as:

Large batch correct incorrect

Unit production correct incorrect

Mass production correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Thompson's two-by-two matrix of technology typologies has an unidentified quadrant. What characteristics define this quadrant?

Standardized inputs/outputs and non-standardized transformation processes correct incorrect

Standardized inputs/outputs and standardized transformation processes correct incorrect

Non-standardized inputs/outputs and non-standardized transformation processes correct incorrect

Non-standardized inputs/outputs and standardized transformation processes correct incorrect

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. How does Perrow differentiate between technologies?

Variability and analyzability of tasks correct incorrect

Standardizability and analyzability of tasks correct incorrect

Analyzability and routine correct incorrect

Variability and understandability correct incorrect

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. Artifacts within an organization that might characterize it as a 'cyborganization' might include:

Photocopiers correct incorrect

Manufacturing equipment correct incorrect

Telephone correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Postmodernists see technology as:

Controlling correct incorrect

Oppressing correct incorrect

Addictive correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect