2016 Volume 15 Issue 11 Pages 547-564
To begin with, Bijker (1995a) introduces the problems about flood and dike in the Netherlands and analyzes them by using Materialistic Models, Cognitive Models and Social Shaping Models. Then, he points out the insufficiency of social shaping models and proposes three more elaborate approaches (Systems Approach; Actor Network Theory; Social Construction of Technology). He examines the huge dike construction, Deltaplan, through these approaches. This is the rough content of Bijker (1995a). In this paper, Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) is said to analyze the sociotechnical ensembles, which consists of heterogeneous elements such as the social, technological and so on. However, when coming into born, SCOT is not a framework to examine the sociotechnical ensembles. It is criticized and updated, and then comes to target them. These days, SCOT is used in management studies as the new analysis tool, but sociotechnical-ensemble-like perspective is often seen in traditional management studies. So, this trend of SCOT is thought to be in transition. However, as for technological frame, which is an updated version of SCOT, it has some rooms for theory development because the relation between elements of technological frame is vague.
