Search Results - subject:"Sociotechnical Systems"

Certain change: multi-democratic movements punctuate the tyrannical paradigm in Africa

Mupepi, Mambo G.; Mupepi, Sylvia C. - In: African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-22

Massive unemployment, increasing dissension and despotic and corrupt authorities have created an ideal environment for the emergence of civil and democratic movements whose main objectives are to create and foster democracy. African spring is seeking to facilitate an equitable distribution of...

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Special section introduction: Information, technology, and the changing nature of work

Forman, Christopher; King, John Leslie; Lyytinen, Kalle - In: Information systems research : ISR 25 (2014) 4, pp. 789-795

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General Motor's great experiments : foundations for Lansing Grand River Assembly

Moore, Michael L.; Mothersell, William M.; Motwani, … - In: International journal of business excellence 7 (2014) 6, pp. 771-790

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Patchwork Prototyping: A Rapid Prototyping Technique That Harnesses the Power of Open-Source Software

Jones, M. Cameron; Floyd, Ingbert R.; Twidale, Michael B. - 2007

This chapter explores the concept of patchwork prototyping - the combining of open source software applications to rapidly create a rudimentary but fully functional prototype that can be used and hence evaluated in real life situations. The use of a working prototype enables the capture of more...

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Converging production models: the STS versus lean production debate revisited

Dabhilkar, Mandar; Åhlström, Pär - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 33 (2013) 8, pp. 1019-1039

models based on sociotechnical systems (STS) theory and lean production (LP), this paper develops a notion of a hybrid model …

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Framing the role of design in transformation of consumption practices : beyond the designer-product-user triad

Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Boks, Casper; Tukker, Arnold - In: International journal of technology management : IJTM 63 (2013) 1/2, pp. 70-103

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Converging production models : the STS versus lean production debate revisited

Dabhilkar, Mandar; Åhlström, Pär - In: International journal of operations & production … 33 (2013) 8, pp. 1019-1039

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Moving from access to use of the information infrastructure : a multilevel sociotechnical framework

Racherla, Pradeep; Mandviwalla, Munir - In: Information systems research : ISR 24 (2013) 3, pp. 709-730

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Document theory for the design of socio‐technical systems : A document model as ontology of human expression

Ivar Olsen, Bernt; Windfeld Lund, Niels; Ellingsen, Gunnar - In: Journal of Documentation 68 (2012) 1, pp. 100-126

more or less solely in the context of information systems design, specifically sociotechnical systems. Moreover, the … compared to the traditional systems design and engineering reductionist approach, and also in the context of sociotechnical … systems design. The document model is a taxonomy of the constituents of the document and, the authors argue, a potential …

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The Statistical Mechanics of Complex Product Development: Empirical and Analytical Results

Braha, Dan; Bar-Yam, Yaneer - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 7, pp. 1127-1145

In recent years, understanding the structure and function of complex networks has become the foundation for explaining many different real-world complex biological, technological, and informal social phenomena. Techniques from statistical physics have been successfully applied to the analysis of...

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