The Social Study of the Information Technology Marketplace: The Role of Industry Analysts in Constituting the Technological Field
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Sch of Economics
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Neil Pollock (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Higgins, Vaughan; Larner, Wendy
(2010)
Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing
Luciana D'Adderio (Author)
(2012)
Competing rules, materiality and the diffusion of organizational theories
Luciana D'Adderio (Author)
(2010)
"Fixing" vs. "swapping" : how the modular organization is performed in practice
Monteiro E
(2012)
From Artefacts to Infrastructures
in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Neil Pollock (Author)
(2012)
What is this thing called a 'prediction' : towards a sociology of business knowledge
Neil Pollock (Author)
(2009)
Constructing IT markets : how industry analysis organise technological fields
Neil Pollock (Author)
(2009)
The business of expectations : the role of promissory organisations in shaping technologies & innovation
Neil Pollock (Author)
(2012)
How industry analysts organise and shape the IT market
Neil Pollock (Author)
(2010)
Give me a 2*2 matrix and I will raise the market : the intermediaries and devices that create product categories
Pollock
(2016)
How Industry Analysts Shape the Digital Future
| Title | Gartner magic quadrant : how they shape the IT market |
| Description | Video posted on YouTube describing some of the key findings of the research |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Title | Gartner magic quadrant : impact on innovation |
| Description | Video posted on YouTube describing some of the key findings of the research |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Description | Give me a 2*2 matrix and I will construct the market |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the University of Loughborough |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Give me a 2*2 matrix and I will construct the market |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar at the University of Finland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Give me a 2*2 matrix and I will shape the market |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk given at Northwestern University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Give me a 2*2 matrix and I will shape the market |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Give me a two-by-two matrix and I will create the market : rankings, graphic visualisations and sociomateriality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This workshop presentation will focus on the production and communication of a major ranking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | How SAP conquered the world |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given at the University of St Andrews |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Promissory organizations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at the Expectation-building and innovation processes workshop, 17-18th September 2009, Dübendorf (Zurich), Switzerland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The promissory organisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar at the University of York |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The social study of the information technology marketplace : the role of industry analysts in constituting the technological field |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on research findings given to audience of over 50 people from the Scottish IT community at the Oracle User Group Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |