SYSTEMS BASED ON KNOWLEDGE AND ORGANIZATI ONS

This article by a sociologist and computer scientist describes the tec hnical and social contexts of developments in computer science. Combin ing these two analyses provides many a lesson. We can thus understand how the constraints on the organization implanting such systems are re flected in the form of an explicit organizational model for decisions about programming. It illustrates how technological constraints shape the organization, even if other processes modify the resulting structu re.