A meta-analysis of the direction and state of sociotechnical research in a range of disciplines: For practitioners and academics

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-52

  Coakes, Elayne ^a   Coakes, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Publishing; Research; Sociotechnical; Sociotechnology; Systems theory; Web of science database

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957133819     PISSN: 19416253     EISSN: 19416261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jskd.2009010101     Document Type: Article

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