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Prof. Dr. Peter Brödner (pens.)

peter.broedner(at)t-online.de

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Name: Prof. Dr. Peter Brödner
Year of birth: 1942
Studies: Mechanical engineering in Karlsruhe and Berlin
Vita:
from 1968 Assistant and doctorate (1974) at the Institute for Production Automation at the TU Berlin
1976 to 1989 Management of industrial development projects in the fields of NC programming, flexible manufacturing systems, production planning and control and anthropocentric production systems at the project sponsors Humanization of Working Life (DLR Bonn) and Production Engineering (Karlsruhe Research Centre).
1989 to 2005 Research Director for Production Systems at the Institute for Work and Technology at the North Rhine-Westphalia Science Centre, specializing in the design of computer-aided work and organizational change.
Since 2005 retired, at the same time research consultant and lecturer for "IT in Organizations", honorary professor at the University of Siegen.
Member of the Leibniz-Society of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin

Publications on the topic of the lecture

  • >Informatik - eine Wissenschaft auf Abwegen, In: Banse, G. & Fuchs-Kittowski, K. (eds.): Cyberscience - Wissenschaftsforschung und Informatik. Digital media and the future of the culture of scientific activity, Sitzungsberichte der Leibniz-Sozietät, Vol. 150/151, Berlin: trafo Wissenschaftsverlag 2022, 257-274
  • The productivity paradox of computer technology, In: H.J. Bontrup & J. Daub (eds.): Digitalization and technology - progress or curse? Perspectives on the development of productive forces in modern capitalism, Cologne: PapyRossa 2020, 114-144
  • Paradoxes of the co-action of experts and adaptive systems, In: P. Brödner & K. Fuchs-Kittowski (eds.): Zukunft der Arbeit - soziotechnische Gestaltung der Arbeitswelt im Zeichen von "Digitalisierung" und "Künstlicher Intelligenz", Abhandlungen der Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften Vol. 67, Berlin: trafo Wissenschaftsverlag 2020, 143-159
  • Industry 4.0 and Big Data - really a new technological push? In: Hirsch-Kreinsen, H; Ittermann, P. & Niehaus J. (eds.): Digitalization of industrial work. The vision of Industry 4.0 and its social challenges, Berlin: edition sigma 2015, 231-250
  • The third wave of the automated factory - myth and reality of semiotic machines in: Banse, G.; Busch, U. & Thomas, M. (eds.): Digitalization and Transformation. Industry 4.0 and digitalized society, Abhandlungen der Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften Volume 49, Berlin: trafo Wissenschaftsverlag 2017, 165-184
  • Grounded Design - a Praxeological IS Research Perspective, JIT 2016.5 AOP (together with Rohde, M.; Stevens, G.; Betz, M. & Wulf, V.)
  • The Misery of Digital Organizations and theSemiotic Nature of IT, AI & Society Journal of Human-Centred Systems 23 (2009), 331-351
  • Das Elend computerunterstützter Organisationen, in: Gumm, D.; Janneck, M.; Langer, R. & Simon, E.J. (eds.): Mensch -Technik - Ärger? On the controllability of socio-technical dynamics from a transdisciplinary perspective, Münster: Lit-Verlag 2008, 39-60
  • Software is Orgware - A Semiotic Perspective on Computer Artifacts, Proceedings of the International Conference on User-driven IT Design and Quality Assurance (UITQ 05), Stockholm: KTH 2005, 63-70
  • IT-related Challenges for Process Innovation Management, Proceedings of the 6th International CINet
    Conference: "Continuous Innovation - (Ways of) Making Things Happen", Brighton: CENTRIM 2005 (together with G. Lay)
  • The hero of Caputh is not alone. Wie Wissenschaft die Nutzungsprobleme der Informationstechnik ignoriert, in: Moldaschl, M. (ed.): Neue Arbeit - Neue Wissenschaft der Arbeit? Heidelberg: Asanger 2002, 339-36

Further selected publications

Books

  • "Artificial Intelligence": Fiction and Truth. Insights into the technology of computation and myths about intelligence, 2023
  • Sustainable work design. Trend reports on the development and use of human resources, Munich: Hampp 2002 (together with M. Knuth, ed.)
  • Informatik in der Arbeitswelt, Tübinger Studientexte Informatik und Gesellschaft, ed. by Sylvia Rizvi and Herbert Klaeren, University of Tübingen 1999
  • A breath of fresh air in the factory. Rules and models of change processes. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer 1999 (together with W. Kötter, ed.)
  • The outwitted Odysseus. On the dysfunctional relationship between humans and machines, Berlin: edition sigma 1997
  • Division of labor without end? On the difficulties of intra- and inter-company cooperation, Munich: Hampp 1996 (together with U. Pekruhl and D. Rehfeld, eds.)
  • Success Factors of the Japanese Machine Tool Industry, Eschborn: RKW 1992 (together with W. Schultetus)
  • Ergonomics of Hybrid Automated Systems III. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing and Hybrid Automation, Amsterdam: Elsevier 1992 (together with W. Karwowski, eds.)
  • Work design and participative system development. Opladen: Leske + Budrich 1991 (together with G. Simonis & H. Paul, eds.)
  • The return of work to the factory. Competitiveness through human-centered renewal of customer-oriented production, Gelsenkirchen: IAT 1991 (together with U. Pekruhl)
  • The Shape of Future Technology. The Anthropocentric Alternative, London: Springer 1990

Magazine article

  • Die Illusionsfabrik der "KI"-Narrative, published in FIfF-Kommunikation, edited by FIfF e.V. - ISSN 0938-3476, www.fiff.de
  • Coping with Descartes' Error in Information Systems in AI & Society Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication 2018
  • "Super-intelligent" Machine: Technological Exuberance or the Road to Subjection in: AI & Society Journal of Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication 2017
  • Disinformed by "information"? On the Critique of the Paradigm of Information Processing, Arbeits- und Industriesoziologische Studien 7 (1), May 2014, 42-59
  • Reflexive Design of Technology for Human Needs, 25th Anniversary Volume: A Faustian Exchange: What Is to Be Human in the Era of Ubiquitous Technology, AI & Society 28 (2013), 27-37
  • The strategic function of sustainably developed working capital in knowledge-intensive value creation processes, ZfA 65 (1) 2011, 59-62 (together with P. Oehlke)
  • Productivity Effects of Outsourcing: New Evidence on the Strategic Importance of Vertical Integration Decisions, Int. Journal of Operations & Production Management 29 (2) 2009, 127-149
  • From Taylorism to Competence-based Production, AI & Society Journal of Human-Centered Systems 21 (4) 2007, 497-514
  • Recent Findings on Organizational Changes in German Industry, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 15 (4) 2004, 360-368 (together with E. Latnia)
  • Sources of Innovation and Competitiveness. National Programmes Supporting the Development of Work
    Organization, Concepts and Transformation 8 (2) 2003, 179-211 (together with E. Latniak)

Book and conference contributions

  • "Künstliche Intelligenz": Dichtung und Wahrheit - Einblicke in die Technik des Berechnens und in Mythen um Intelligenz, In Volkmar Pipek, Markus Rohde (Eds.), International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI). (Vol. 20, Iss. 1, pp. 1-196)
  • "Machines that think" - the "AI" illusion and its root, in: Klaus Lenk & Jörg Pohle (eds.): Der Weg in die "Digitalisierung" der Gesellschaft. What can we learn from the history of computer science? Marburg: Metropolis 2021, 67-82
  • Limits and Contradictions of the Development and Application of Autonomous Systems, in: Hirsch-Kreinsen, H. & KaracÌŒicÌ, A. (eds.): Autonome Systeme und Arbeit. Perspectives, challenges and limits of artificial intelligence in the world of work, Bielefeld: transcript 2019, 69-97
  • Ex septentriones lux, in: Zanker, C.; Som, O. & Kinkel, S. (eds.): Innovations in production. A multi-perspective approach, Stuttgart: Fraunhofer Verlag 2013, 243-255
  • Change of perspective on IS: From system design to the structuring of social practice, in: Ziegler, J. & Schmidt, A. (eds.): Mensch & Computer 2010, Munich: Oldenbourg 2010, 149-158
  • Knowledge sharing and knowledge transformation, in: Moldaschl, M. & Stehr, N. (eds.): Wissensökonomie und Innovation. Contributions to the Economics of the Knowledge Society, Marburg: Metropolis 2010, 455-480
  • Towards a Paradigmatic Shift in IS: Designing for Social Practice, Proceedings of 4th Int. Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology 2009, Philadelphia: Penn State University (together with M. Rohde, G. Stevens and V. Wulf)
  • Sustainability in Knowledge-Based Companies, in: Docherty, P.; Kira, M.; Shani, R. (eds.): Creating Sustainable Work Systems. Developing social sustainability, London: Routledge 2009, 53-69
  • Introduction: Shaping Work and Technology, Chapter 3.8.0 in Rauner, F. & Maclean, R. (eds.): Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer 2008, 573-581 (together with P. Oehlke
  • Wider die Computermystik und die Selbstverwirrung des Subjekts - Ein Theoriegerüst zur Erklärung der Schwierigkeiten im Umgang mit der Informationstechnik und deren sozialen Einbettung, in: Baukrowitz, A.; Berker, T.; Boes, A.; Pfeiffer, S.; Schmiede, R. & Will, M. (eds.): Informatisierung der Arbeit - Gesellschaft im Umbruch, Berlin: edition sigma 2006, 381-394
  • Operational rationalization strategies and the use of technical systems, in: Zimolong, B.; Konradt, U. (eds.): Engineering Psychology. Encyclopaedia of Psychology: Economic, Organizational and Work Psychology - Volume 2, Göttingen: Hogrefe 2006, 943-980
  • The Internet - Universal Information Infrastructure for the Emerging Knowledge Society, in: Helmstätder, E. (Ed.): The Economics of Knowledge Sharing. A New Institutional Approach, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2003, 147-169
  • O tempora. o mores! Work Intensity - Why Again an Issue? in: Docherty, P.; Forslin, J. & Shani, R.B. (Eds.): Creating Sustainable Work Systems: Emerging Perspectives and Practice, London: Routledge 2002, 15-26 (together with J. Forslin)
  • The gospel of robo sapiens. A collective review of new publications on artificial intelligence, in: Fricke, W. (ed.): Jahrbuch Arbeit + Technik 2001/2002, Bonn: Dietz 2001, 415-422