title: Metaphors of industrial rationality: the social construction of electronics policy in the United States and France
abstract: In the last decade or so a few analysts have situated cuItural meaning at core of rationalized institutions. The Birmingham school has explored science horn a constructivist perspective (see also Latour 1907). Nee-. institutional students of organizations have charted the social c o n ~t r u c t i ~~ of rationalized corporate stratrgies (Meyer and Rowan 1977; Fligstein 1W). ~t a more macro-level studies have traced the rise of rationality a d the social construction of the modem nation-state (An