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Recent research on innovations and production has, as a rule, very successfully opened itself to new influences and metaphors, as long as it strove to break out of the corset of reductionist economic explanatory logic. The range, especially of innovation approaches, varies from political science oriented institutional concepts and “culturally enriched” social science technology research to organizational theory models. From a superficial point of view the industrial culture approach developed since 1987 might also be misinterpreted as culture-sociological technology research, although the label industrial culture has more to do with a comprehensive approach for interpreting the social organization of innovation and production. In this way emphasis is placed on the specific characteristics of innovation and production processes in different national (in our terms: industrial culture) contexts and, above all, an attempt is made to explain differences in the development and application of programmable automation (PA) techniques as a result of different industrial cultures.
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Ruth, K. (1996). Industrial Culture - An Action-Oriented View at Innovation and Production. In: Rasmussen, L., Rauner, F. (eds) Industrial Cultures and Production. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1492-5_6
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