SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AS TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

As earlier indicated, SCOT theories till now have primarily been applied as analytical tools in research concerned with historical developments in technology. As a basis for an action-oriented concept they must be further elaborated, which indeed is also an evident perspective and ongoing endeavour. However, in a reflection on the dynamics between snapshot 1 and 2 technology management could be claimed to take place in the merging of the different technology frames through the redefinition of the problem to a dominating frame. The technology manager is an actor (in a relevant social group), who undertakes the assignment of achieving closure of the problem, for instance through entering alliances and agreements which comply with his demands on technology development. Obviously, a necessary prerequisite for fulfilling this task must have been an analysis of the actors at work, their mutual power positions and their technological frames.