Search for dissertations about: "sociotechnical systems"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 64 swedish dissertations containing the words sociotechnical systems.

  2. 16. Technology Carriers: The Role of Engineers in the Expanding Swedish Shipbuilding System

    Author : Lars O. Olsson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sociotechnical systems; shipbuilding; engineering education; 20-th century; user-producer interaction; professional associations; engineers; technological systems; technological knowledge; history of technology; systems of innovation; industrial research;

    Abstract : This study analyses the process which shaped the role or function of college-trained engineers within a technological system or innovation system during the period from the start of the 20th century until the 1950s and 1960s. With a conceptual framework of sociotechnical systems and of engineers as a social group of technology carriers this process is studied in one particular system, namely the Swedish shipbuilding system. READ MORE

  4. 17. Process management in product development

    Author : Mats A. Lundqvist; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; process management; project management; contingency theory; efficiency; sociotechnical; product development; systems theory; organizational learning systems;

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  5. 18. The Quest for Edge Awareness, Lessons not yet learned : PhD Thesis on practical and situated usefulness of advanced technological systems among inescapable uncertainties and competing interests in a world of dynamic changes

    Author : Patrik Stensson; Anders Jansson; Pär Ågerfalk; Martin Norsell; Erik Hollnagel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; critical realism; human factors; situation awareness; resilience engineering; human-machine interaction; automation; autonomy; situated usefulness; systems thinking; sociotechnical systems; edge awareness; Människa-dator interaktion; Human-Computer Interaction;

    Abstract : This thesis problematizes the concept of usefulness, in part by taking questions to the extreme. The starting point is the contemporary view of usefulness, a view that remains within a traditional paradigm of technical rationality in which important aspects are disregarded or not perceived because they are not part of the equation. READ MORE

  6. 19. Unpacking the Sociotechnical Complexity of a Surgical Setting : Capturing the Context of Use to Inform Design and Evaluation

    Author : Hedvig Aminoff; Sebastiaan Meijer; Maaike Kleinsmann; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Telemedicine; Implementation; Complexity; Sociotechnical systems; Design Science; Technology and Health; Teknik och hälsa;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on how the implementation context for a surgical telementoringservice can be understood as a complex, adaptive sociotechnical system.Teleguidance was a service for remote surgical consultation in Endoscopic RetrogradeCholangiopancreatography (ERCP), a highly specialized clinical procedure. READ MORE

  7. 20. Innovation through digitalization: How Sociotechnical Tensions Drive Innovation

    Author : Min Tian; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : In the digital age, many firms seek to innovate through digitalization. Scholars of information systems (IS) have drawn upon the theoretical insights of the sociotechnical interrelations that accompany digitalization to analyze digital innovation. READ MORE