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Professor Brian Bloomfield

Emeritus Professor

  1. 1985
  2. Published

    Anomalies and Social Experience: Backcasting with Simulation Models

    Bloomfield, B., 11/1985, In: Social Studies of Science. 15, 4, p. 631-675 45 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. 1989
  4. Published

    On Speaking About Computing

    Bloomfield, B., 08/1989, In: Sociology. 23, 3, p. 409-426 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. 1991
  6. Published

    The Role of Information Systems in the United Kingdom National Health Service: Action at a Distance and the Fetish of Calculation

    Bloomfield, B., 11/1991, In: Social Studies of Science. 21, 4, p. 701-734 34 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 1992
  8. Published

    Information Technology, Control and Power: the Centralisation and Decentralisation Debate Revisited

    Bloomfield, B. & Coombs, R., 1992, In: Journal of Management Studies. 29, 4, p. 459-484 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Understanding the Social Practices of Systems Developers

    Bloomfield, B., 07/1992, In: Information Systems Journal . 2, 3, p. 189-206 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Management Consultants, Systems Development, Power and the Translation of Problems

    Bloomfield, B. & Best, A., 08/1992, In: The Sociological Review. 40, 3, p. 533-560 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Machines and manoeuvres: Responsibility accounting and the construction of hospital information systems

    Bloomfield, B., Coombs, R., Cooper, D. J. & Rea, D., 10/1992, In: Accounting, Management and Information Technologies. 2, 4, p. 197-219 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. 1994
  13. Published

    Boundary Disputes: Negotiating the Boundary Between the Technical and the Social in the Development of IT Systems

    Bloomfield, B. & Vurdubakis, T., 1994, In: Information Technology and People. 7, 1, p. 9-24 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Re-presenting technology: IT consultancy reports as textual reality constructions

    Bloomfield, B. P. & Vurdubakis, T., 1994, In: Sociology. 28, 2, p. 455-478 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. 1995
  16. Published

    The Role of Management Consultants in the Development of Information Technology: the Indissoluble Nature of Socio-Political and Technical Skills

    Bloomfield, B. & Danieli, A., 1995, In: Journal of Management Studies. 32, 1, p. 23-46 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Disrupted Boundaries: New Reproductive Technologies and the Language of Anxiety and Expectation

    Bloomfield, B. & Vurdubakis, T., 08/1995, In: Social Studies of Science. 25, 3, p. 533-551 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Power, Machines, and Social Relations: Delegating to Information Technology in the UK National Health Service

    Bloomfield, B., 08/1995, In: Organization. 2, 3-4, p. 489-518 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. 1996
  20. Published

    Madness and Organization: Informed Management and Empowerment

    Bloomfield, B. & MacLean, C., 1996, Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work. Orlikowski, W., Walsham, G., Jones, M. & DeGross, J. (eds.). London: Chapman and Hall, p. 371-392 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  21. 1997
  22. Published

    Information Technology and Organizations: Strategies, Networks and Integration

    Bloomfield, B. P., Coombs, R., Knights, D. & Littler, D., 1997, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 194 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  23. Published

    Paper traces: inscribing organisation and information technology

    Bloomfield, B. P. & Vurdubakis, T., 1997, Information Technology and Organizations: Strategies, Networks and Integration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 85-111 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  24. Published

    The revenge of the object: on AI as a cultural enterprise

    Bloomfield, B. P. & Vurdubakis, T., 1997, In: Social Analysis. 41, 1, p. 29-45 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Visions of organisation and organisations of vision: the representational practices of information systems development

    Bloomfield, B. P. & Vurdubakis, T., 1997, In: Accounting, Organizations and Society. 22, 7, p. 639-668 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. 1999
  27. Published

    The outer limits: monsters, actor networks and the writing of displacement

    Bloomfield, B. P. & Vurdubakis, T., 1999, In: Organization. 6, 4, p. 625-647 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. 2001
  29. Published

    In the right place at the right time: electronic tagging and problems of social order/disorder

    Bloomfield, B. P., 2001, In: The Sociological Review. 49, 2, p. 174-201 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. 2002
  31. Published

    The vision thing: constructing technology and the future in management advice

    Bloomfield, B. P. & Vurdubakis, T., 2002, Critical Consulting: New Perspectives on the Management Advice Industry. Oxford: Blackwell, p. 115-129 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  32. 2003
  33. Published

    Beyond the walls of the asylum: information and organization in the provision of community mental health services

    Bloomfield, B. P. & McLean, C., 2003, In: Information and Organization. 13, p. 53-84 32 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    Imitation games: Turing, Menard, Van Meegeren

    Bloomfield, B. P. & Vurdubakis, T., 2003, In: Ethics and Information Technology. 5, 1, p. 27-38 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  35. Published

    Narrating the future of intelligent machines: the role of science fiction in technological anticipation

    Bloomfield, B. P., 2003, Narratives We Organize By. Czarniawska, B. & Gagliardi, P. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 193-212 20 p. (Advances in Organization Studies; vol. 11).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  36. Published

    The curse of Frankenstein: visions of technology and society in the debate over new reproductive technologies

    Bloomfield, B. P. & Vurdubakis, T., 2003, Lancaster University: The Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, (Organisation, Work and Technology Working Paper Series).

    Research output: Working paper

  37. Published

    The secret of Yucca Mountain: reflections on an object in extremis

    Bloomfield, B. P. & Vurdubakis, T., 2003, Lancaster University: The Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, (Organisation, Work and Technology Working Paper Series).

    Research output: Working paper

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