Design in socio-technical system development: three angles in a common framework

Journal of Design Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 382-396

  Bots, Pieter W G ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

artefact; car sharing; CO2 emissions; decision process; design process; flow; institution; regime; structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249140207     PISSN: 17483050     EISSN: 15691551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/JDR.2007.014883     Document Type: Article

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