Search Results - subject:"socio‐technical systems"

The Interplay of Urban Energy Policy and Socio-technical Transitions: The Eco-cities of Graz and Freiburg in Retrospect

Rohracher, Harald; Späth, Philipp - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 7, pp. 1415-1431

The cities of Graz in Austria and Freiburg in Germany have been perceived as ecological model cities since the late 1980s.This is shown by various international awards, press coverage and many visitors from other municipal administrations. Both cities have been well known for their attempts to...

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Adaptation of interconnected infrastructures to climate change: A socio-technical systems perspective

Chappin, Emile J.L.; van der Lei, Telli - In: Utilities Policy 31 (2014) C, pp. 10-17

infrastructures, society's backbones, in light of climate change are emerging. We apply a socio-technical systems perspective in order … on and interdependencies of built socio-technical systems are recognized, not only for energy and transport, but also for …

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From transfer to translation: Using systemic understandings of technology to understand drip irrigation uptake

Garb, Yaakov; Friedlander, Lonia - In: Agricultural Systems 128 (2014) C, pp. 13-24

Drip irrigation is a technology with great potential for improving the efficiency of water use, and for increasing crop production and food security by enabling agriculture on marginal land. Yet drip irrigation’s uptake is patchy, with conspicuous successes in some locations and failures in...

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Control in Knowledge Economies

Betz, Frederick - In: Journal of the Knowledge Economy 5 (2014) 4, pp. 761-783

types of control exist in a society: control in socio-technical systems, control in managed systems, and control in self … be plunged into instability—due to economic problems when socio-technical systems fail to provide proper functionality …

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The UK homeowner-retrofitter as an innovator in a socio-technical system

Galvin, Ray; Sunikka-Blank, Minna - In: Energy Policy 74 (2014) C, pp. 655-662

challenged by the insight from socio-technical systems studies (STST) that technology and society mutually form and influence …

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Socio-technical systems theory as a diagnostic tool for examining underutilization of wiki technology

J. Hester, Andrea - In: The Learning Organization 21 (2014) 1, pp. 48-68

represent the alignment relationships. Socio-technical systems theory (STS) is often utilized in qualitative studies. This paper …Purpose – This paper aims to examine organizational information systems based on Web 2.0 technology as socio-technical … systems that involve interacting relationships among actors, structure, tasks and technology. Alignment within the …

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Socio-technical systems theory as a diagnostic tool for examining underutilization of wiki technology

Hester, Andrea J. - In: The learning organization : TLO ; the international … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 48-68

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Ordering disorders; linking organization design and knowledge integration

Hendriks, Paul H.; Fruytier, Ben G. M. - In: Knowledge management research & practice : KMRP 12 (2014) 1, pp. 48-61

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Complex adaptive information flow and search transfer analysis

Feczak, Szabolcs; Hossain, Liaquat; Carlsson, Sven - In: Knowledge management research & practice : KMRP 12 (2014) 1, pp. 29-35

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Resolving or managing uncertainties for carbon capture and storage : lessons from historical analogues

Watson, Jim; Kern, Florian; Markusson, Nils - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 81 (2014), pp. 192-204

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