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	Technostructure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Technostructure is a term coined by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in "The New Industrial State" (1967) to describe the group of technicians within an enterprise (or an administrative body) with considerable influence and control on its economy.
		The power struggle between the technostructure and the shareholders was first evoked by Thorstein Veblen in "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899), questioning who, among the managers and the shareholders, should control the enterprise.
		Since the technostructure is composed of an hierarchical system of influential employees inside the enterprise, its primary goal is not to maximize their profits but rather survival, continuous growth and maximal size.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technostructure (472 words)

	Technostructure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Technostructure is a term coined by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in "The New Economic State" (1967) to describe the group of technicians within an enterprise (or an administrative body) with considerable influence and control on its economy.
		The power struggle between the technostructure and the shareholders was first evoked by Thorstein Vablen in "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899), questioning who, among the managers and the shareholders, should control the enterprise.
		Since the technostructure is composed of an hierarchical system of influential employees inside the enterprise, its primary goal isn’t to maximize their profits but rather survival, continuous growth and maximal size.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Technostructure.htm (523 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Economics and the Public Purpose, by John Kenneth Galbraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		...however, he fails to draw from this the appropriate conclusion-that the technostructure now has a constituency measured in millions, and that its power rests on the concordance of its self-interest with that of a very large section of the population...
		...If the consumer is so manipulable by the technostructure, why does he become the conventional figure of the economic textbooks in pursuit of his own selfinterest when he deals with a repairman or shopkeeper...
		...It is just conceivable, after all, that the real power of the technostructure rests not on its ability to control the consumer but on its readiness to adjust its activities to the self-interest of the majority of the public...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V57I1P62-1.htm (2777 words)

	TECHNOSTRUCTURE, THE CENTER OF GRAVITY
		Technostructure, the composite of knowledge and skills is playing a pivotal role in sustaining and evolving the modern day Enterprise.
		Over the years, the community comprising the Technostructure have effectively responded to the challenges faced by them, have shown remarkable degree of resilience and have managed to exert a constructive influence and a lasting impression.
		With the winds of liberalization gradually gaining acceptance there is scope for a greater role and a grand challenge is ahead of the creative community.
	channel9.msdn.com /ShowPost.aspx?PostID=122511 (293 words)

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		One of these is likely to be job-satisfaction: graduates with trained minds welcome the challenge of the new and are keen to put their hard-earned technical virtuosity to some use, even if the cost of amusing innovativeness and accelerated obsolescence happens to be a diminution in the profits remunerating the capitalist.
		The second is security: the organization man values continuity of employment, the technostructure as a whole cannot afford the loss of key specialists, and any committee that wishes to be effective jealously defends its autonomy against uninformed outsiders (politicians and property-owners, managers and money-lenders) who would seek through intervention to countervail its power.
		Nor are the basic predictions of the old-style economist likely to be called seriously into question by the emergence of the new-style objectives: profit as means or profit as end, the economist will reason, theory predicated upon profit-oriented motivation is not significantly less relevant in the one case than it is in the other.
	gallery.economicus.ru /cgi-ise/gallery/frame_rightn.pl?type=in&links=./in/galbraith/critics/galbraith_c1.txt&img=critic_small.gif&name=galbraith (4979 words)

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		The technostructure is distinguished from the rest of the company as the rest of the company is based primarily on KEE.
		Even if an owner is an expert in a specific field, he doesn’t necessarily understand the rest of the information and interaction involved in his suggested change.
		In particular, for the technostructure, growth means increased responsibilities, and this comes with a salary increase and a fancy title.
	webhome.idirect.com /~shafi/aps103_2/October22.doc (703 words)

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		This new structure is known as a technostructure.
		If everything in the technostructure was done sequentially: One aspect was completely dealt with and after a year they come back with their specs.
		The technological cycle is now carried out by a technostructure that plans the entire technological life-cycle of the car.
	webhome.idirect.com /~shafi/aps103_2/October17.doc (1101 words)

	TechnoStructure :: Why TechnoStructure
		Process: TechnoStructure follows a proven process for success – from design, to installation, customization, and owner training and support – to ensure that easy-to-use systems are installed on time and within your budget.
		Accountability: TechnoStructure serves as a single point of contact and problem resolution for each project, and for all components within the integrated solution.
		Efficiency: TechnoStructure reduces your risk and saves you time by eliminating the need to contract and coordinate the efforts of multiple companies (e.g., one contractor for security, another for distributed audio, another for home automation, etc.).
	www.technostructure.com /pages/why (294 words)

	The Five Basic Parts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		However, as organizations become larger, they typically develop a separate group of people -- analysts -- who take on the job of figuring out what the company's technology should be and what the company's procedures should be.
		The technostructure's mission is to effect coordination through standardization.
		In contrast, the technostructure and support staff are known collectively as staff positions.
	www.analytictech.com /mb021/five.htm (388 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Liberalism According to Galbraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		...Now labor is described as a numerically dwindling movement which does more to rationalize the work situation than to challenge the values of the system itself, and hence as a negligible force in the task of accommodating the technostructure to the needs of society...
		...Within the corporation itself, a technostructure of planners and committeemen has replaced the old-fashioned hierarchy with the owner-manager at the top...
		...The men of the technostructure identify with what they do and they must feel that their corporation has, or will have, a significant purpose...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V44I4P79-1.htm (6101 words)

	TechnoStructure :: About Us
		TechnoStructure was founded in 2003 to meet increasing demand for the implementation of commercial-quality technology and services in the residential marketplace.
		Although the company itself is young, TechnoStructure can bring individuals with many decades of combined experience to a system implementation project in your home.
		It is this professional experience in dealing first-hand with enabling and emerging technologies upon which TechnoStructure is based.
	www.technostructure.com /pages/about (145 words)

	CTheory.net
		A new "closure" is occasioned in our sensory organs and faculties, both private and public, by new technical extension of man. And McLuhan's "therapeutic": the deployment of the "creative imagination" as a new way of seeing technology, and of responding, mythically and in depth, to the challenges of the age of electric circuitry.
		The technostructure thus absorbed McLuhan's discourse on his own terms: it transposed his search for a new, universal civilization into an historical justification of technological necessitarianism; and it showed precisely how compatible the Catholic conception of "transcendent reason" is with the rationalising impulses of the technological system.
		McLuhan's one possible avenue of escape: the recovery of a "grounded" and emergent cultural practice or, at least, some sense of "intimations of deprival" which had been silenced by the technological dynamo was, of course, firmly closed to him by his commitment to the universal over the local, and to the metaphorical over the historical.
	www.ctheory.net /printer.aspx?id=70 (9663 words)

	CTheory.net
		It is our plight to be processed through the technological simulacrum; to participate intensively and integrally in a "technostructure" which is nothing but a vast simulation and "amplification" of the bodily senses.
		Indeed, to read McLuhan is to pass directly into the secret locus of the "medium is the massage"; to experience anew the "media" (this time the medium of writing) as a silent gradient of ground-rules.
		The technostructure is both the lens through which we experience the world, and, in fact, the "anxious object" with which human experience has become imperceptibly, almost subliminally, merged.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=70 (1931 words)

	Mintzberg's Taxonomy of Organizational Forms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Teams of professionals from the operating core, support staff, and technostructure rely on informal "mutual adjustment" to coordinate their efforts.
		Because the machine bureaucracy depends primarily on the standardization of its operating work processes for coordination, the technostructure - which houses the analysts who do the standardizing - emerges as the key part of the structure.
		Whereas the machine bureaucracy generates its own standards - its technostructure designing the work standards for its operators and its line managers enforcing them - the standards of the professional bureaucracy originate largely outside its own structure, in the self-governing association its operators join with their colleagues from other professional bureaucracies.
	ist-socrates.berkeley.edu /~fmb/articles/mintzberg (1778 words)

	M-TH: Surplus value (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		And Galbraith reckons the technostructure has taken over from the capitalist, and that Marxists persist in ignoring this most important of political economic transformations.
		This technostructure is not essentially profit-seeking in the old sense - it seeks the survival of its milch cow, the company, but that company's profits do not constitute the urgent priority they did for the the owner-manager of yore.
		The technostructure gains its wealth directly from the company, making optimum profits secondary to the task of balancing the company's survival with the tendency to stasis.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1998-July/010333.html (357 words)

	marginal utility: Why is hype ubiquitous?
		An independent voice cannot be preserved once success is attained, since success in our cutlure, by its very nature, means integration into this technostructure that guides the direction of the economy and the zeitgeist.
		All word-of-mouth enthusaism now aspires to become part of the technostructure, whether it knows it or not.
		The Internet is a massive tool for assimilating the opinions of so many different voices, and then rendering it into a group-think decision worthy of moving capital and dictating investment decisions.
	marginal-utility.blogspot.com /2005/07/why-is-hype-ubiquitous.html (916 words)

	Demutualisation and Social Profit
		The executive technostructures - the management elites who are the beneficiaries of corporate capitalism - are the same.
		The solution is to remove that barrier, with the AECT directors of Mercury Energy directly insisting that the entire surplus arising from its electricity supply operations becomes the property of its community shareholders.
		The citizens of New Zealand are the owners of public domain assets; Parliament is the equivalent of the AECT, and the Executive is the management technostructure.
	www.ak.planet.gen.nz /~keithr/rf98_MutualProfit.html (813 words)

	PEN-L message, [PEN-L:7917] technostructure
		Rather, it is the technostructure, Galbraith's name for this new cadre which acts as both the organisational glue and the guide for future action.
		Because this new cadre requires a level of skills previously unnecessary, a university education is essential to equip them with the requisite skills.
		Unlike the long-term outlook of the technostructure (which might be bad or good, BTW), at least in the US the focus has shifted to quarter-by-quarter bottom-lineism.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/pen-l/1999m06.b/msg00164.htm (709 words)

	Top message : FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS SOLUTIONS
		We aim to contribute to the realization of the "Ubiquitous Society" as a technostructure with high levels of style and creativity.
		FUJITSU Microelectronics Solutions is a technostructure that develops system LSIs with state-of-the-art technology, designs systems that incorporate software technology, and constructs total solutions that fully answer our customers' needs.
		We will contribute to the "Ubiquitous society" while striving to be original as a member of the FUJITSU Electronic Device Group, and aim to become a technostructure that is well known around the world.
	jp.fujitsu.com /group/fmsl/en/greetings (331 words)

	The New York Review of Books: ALLIANCE WITH GALBRAITH?
		Galbraith expects reform from the technostructure and from what he called the scientific/ educational estate (in The New Industrial State); from what used to be called, even by Marxists, the intelligentsia.
		I think the technostructure is a myth, and that the real reason is that power is wielded by the owners and managers of capital in the interest of maximizing profits and the rate of capital accumulation.
		This is a fundamental difference which should not be glossed over and cannot be reconciled by willingness to accept each other as allies.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/9576 (796 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It is naive, said Galbraith, to assume that the technostructure has an incentive to maximize the return to the millions of anonymous stockholders.
		In the orthodox theory of the firm, oligopolists restrict their production in order to boost their prices and enhance their profits: "No point is better accepted by the neoclassical model than that the monopoly price is higher and the output smaller than is socially ideal.
		The Public, through government, must wrest control of the planning sector of the economy from the technostructure, ensuring that it serves the public purpose.
	www.suu.edu /faculty/bowman/Econ3790/BrueGalbraith.htm (2036 words)

	Humanism
		As we enter the electronic age with its instantaneous and global movement of information, we are the first humans to live completely within the mediated environments of the technostructure.
		The content of the technostructure is largely irrelevant.
		It was McLuhan's genius that grasped at once that the content of new technologies served as screens or filters obscuring the technological experience in it's purely formal or spatial properties.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/com/gabra2.html (2727 words)

	Logic 100
		Premise 3: In the absence of regulation of aggregate demand the position of the technostructure would be far less secure.
		Premise 1: The position of the technostructure is endangered by the failure of earnings.
		Conclusion: In the absence of regulation, the position of the technostructure is endangered.
	www.humboldt.edu /~mfg1/solutions1.html (1659 words)

	Real Democracy: Philosophy Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The only way that this technostructure will survive is by investing in science and technology, because it is no longer capable of the efficiency of capitalistism.
		Science, as a result, will supply the technostructure with all its technology and therefore power.
		In exchange, the technostructure will continue to invest and expand its investments into science, which in-turn breeds technology.
	forums.philosophyforums.com /thread/1917 (4236 words)

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		This includes the formal trading rules along with the formal mechanisms for market management that ensure that all transactions are executed in conformity with the rules of the market institution (Brandtweiner and Scharl, 199?).
		Oftentimes, the technostructure of online auction markets closely mimic those of the traditional counterparts that have proven to be highly effective in real world trading situations (Wurman, Wellman and Walsh, 1998).
		The set of rules governing the interaction between market participants in an auction can be characterized by whether the auctions are single or double sided and whether the bids are sealed or public (i.e., outcry).
	webfoot.csom.umn.edu /faculty/kauffman/courses/8599/hahn_v1.doc (4100 words)

	technostructure results found while searching for technostructure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
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	www.xnyc.info /search.php?q=technostructure (321 words)

	Practicum_orgstructure
		· The middle line technostructure and support staff are typically missing.
		This core is the heart of the organization, and decisions are typically decentralized.
		· The technostructure is undeveloped primarily because the operating core is comprised of professionals who neither need nor want assistance from the technocrats.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/ccochran/hca400/HCA400_web/Org_structure.HTM (2133 words)

	Complexity and Technology
		Patent legislation was a necessary complement to this development (Van den Belt and Rip 1987).
		The further development of the interface of science, technology, and markets has led to the emergence of a so-called "technostructure" both within large corporations and in state apparatuses during the first half of the 20th century (Galbraith 1967).
		In this configuration, technological developments remained relatively shielded from immediate consumer interests and oriented towards the longer-term planning of investments.
	users.fmg.uva.nl /lleydesdorff/compltech/index.htm (6236 words)

	The Technostructure (cont.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In a fully developed organization, technostructure may perform at all levels of the hierarchy.
		Low levels: Standardize the operating work flow by scheduling production, carrying out time and motion studies of operators’ work, instituting QC.
		Top levels: Design strategic planning systems, develop financial systems to control goals of major units.
	www.man.metu.edu.tr /~nazli/DSP61E1/tsld047.htm (67 words)

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