Treating socio-technical systems as engineering systems: Some conceptual problems

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 803-814

  Kroes, Peter ^a   Franssen, Maarten ^a   Van De Poel, Ibo ^a   Ottens, Maarten ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Human agents; Model; Social institutions; Socio technical systems

Indexed keywords

ARTEFACTS; AVIATION SYSTEMS; CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; HUMAN AGENT; PAPER ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MODELS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 33846315387     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.703     Document Type: Article

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