Metamorphosis of a Scientific Issue

This article examines the research published by the journal Réseaux over the last 30 years, on the role of Information and Communication Technology in companies and markets. It offers a threefold analysis, documenting in turn the history of technology, the forms of scientific cooperation underpinning the production of Réseaux, and the metamorphoses that the analysis of the links between technology and organization has undergone. Based on a sociology of science approach, it investigates the relations between technologies, the theoretical perspectives that have described their engagement in productive systems and the social scientists who have studied them.