Search for dissertations about: "sociotechnical change"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 swedish dissertations containing the words sociotechnical change.

  2. 1. Lithics in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age : Sociotechnical change and persistence

    Author : Anders Högberg; Arkeologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Lithic technology; Late Bronze Age; Sociotechnical change; Persistence; Large Blade Knives; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Late Bronze Age; Sociotechnical change and Persistence; Lithic analysis; South Scandinavia;

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  4. 2. Inertia in Sociotechnical Systems : On IT-related Change Processes in Organisations

    Author : Thomas Lind; Åsa Cajander; Bengt Sandblad; Marta Lárusdóttir; Netta Iivari; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Human-Computer Interaction; User-Centred Design; Participatory Design; Organisational Change; IT-related Change Processes; Action Research; Inertia; Sociotechnical Systems; Vision Seminars; Datavetenskap med inriktning mot människa-datorinteraktion; Computer Science with specialization in Human-Computer Interaction;

    Abstract : The introduction of new information technology (IT) in an organisation is one way of changing the conditions for how tasks and work processes can be designed and performed, as well as how people in the organisation interact with each other. Today, many Swedish workers rely completely on IT to be able to perform their jobs, while experiencing a combination of continuous and intermittent IT-related changes that affect this ability. READ MORE

  5. 3. Change and resistance to change in health care : Inertia in sociotechnical systems

    Author : Thomas Lind; Åsa Cajander; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Datavetenskap med inriktning mot människa-datorinteraktion; Computer Science with specialization in Human-Computer Interaction;

    Abstract : This thesis explores change and resistance to change of IT systems in organisations from a sociotechnical perspective. The work is drawing on empirical data gathered during two Action Research projects in Swedish Health Care: one regarding the deployment of electronic patient record systems within health care organisations, and the other regarding the deployment of eHealth services geared towards patients and citizens. READ MORE

  6. 4. Where from and by whom? Tracing academic and practitioner visions of energy systems change related to lower income countries

    Author : Samuel John Unsworth; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sociotechnical imaginaries; temporality; sociotechnical change; agency; directionality; lower income countries; knowledge politics; spatiality; innovation; framing;

    Abstract : Dominant agendas of global sustainable development broadly emphasise the urgency of a transition towards an environmentally, socially and economically preferable future. Critical scholars have raised concerns that this transition either produces new environmental, social and economic problems or reproduces those problems of the present system. READ MORE

  7. 5. Shape it until you make it: A conceptual foundation for efforts to analyze and shape technological innovation

    Author : Johnn Andersson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sustainable innovation; Innovation policy; Technological innovation systems; Sociotechnical change; Technological systems; Sociotechnical systems; Technology Assessment; Technological innovation; Sustainability Transitions;

    Abstract : These are times of accelerating climate change and mass extinction of species on planet Earth. We are in the midst of an ecological crisis that will have profound consequences for human society and its natural environment. READ MORE