Govindan Parayil is associate professor and coordinator of the Information and Communications Management Programme at the National University of Singapore.

Highly original and interesting. This is the first study to bring together and evaluate all the different strands of literature that address the issue of technological change. An ambitious and very significant contribution to the literature.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Historical ModelsChapter 3 Sociological ModelsChapter 4 Economic ModelsChapter 5 Neo-Schumpeterian and Evolutionary ModelsChapter 6 Technological Change as Problem-SolvingChapter 7 Contingency and Practical ReflexivityChapter 8 Competing Models and Their Explanatory PowerChapter 9 Technological Change as Knowledge Change: Toward a Syncretic Theory of Technological Change

Govindan Parayil is associate professor and coordinator of the Information and Communications Management Programme at the National University of Singapore.

Highly original and interesting. This is the first study to bring together and evaluate all the different strands of literature that address the issue of technological change. An ambitious and very significant contribution to the literature.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Historical ModelsChapter 3 Sociological ModelsChapter 4 Economic ModelsChapter 5 Neo-Schumpeterian and Evolutionary ModelsChapter 6 Technological Change as Problem-SolvingChapter 7 Contingency and Practical ReflexivityChapter 8 Competing Models and Their Explanatory PowerChapter 9 Technological Change as Knowledge Change: Toward a Syncretic Theory of Technological Change

Govindan Parayil is associate professor and coordinator of the Information and Communications Management Programme at the National University of Singapore.

Highly original and interesting. This is the first study to bring together and evaluate all the different strands of literature that address the issue of technological change. An ambitious and very significant contribution to the literature.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Historical ModelsChapter 3 Sociological ModelsChapter 4 Economic ModelsChapter 5 Neo-Schumpeterian and Evolutionary ModelsChapter 6 Technological Change as Problem-SolvingChapter 7 Contingency and Practical ReflexivityChapter 8 Competing Models and Their Explanatory PowerChapter 9 Technological Change as Knowledge Change: Toward a Syncretic Theory of Technological Change