Man-Machine Systems: People and Technology in OR

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 513-532

  Munro, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Free will; Man machine systems; Rationality; Technologies of the self; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033470405     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022469607464     Document Type: Article

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