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The governance of large technical systems / edited by Olivier Coutard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 13.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 1999Description: xvi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415196031 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.6 COU 21 023141
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : the evolving forms of governance of large technical systems / Olivier Coutard Transforming an energy system : the evolution of the manufactured gas industry and the transition to natural gas in the United States (1807-1954) / Joel A. Tarr Striking bonanza : the establishment of a natural gas regime in the Netherlands / Arne Kaijser Technical systems and strategy : intercontinental telecommunications in the first quarter of the twentieth century / Pascal Griset Designing and operating storm water drain systems : empirical findings and conceptual developments / Konstantinos Chatzis Power plays : the politics of interlinking systems / Jane Summerton From control to coordination : new governance models for information networks and other large technical systems / Janet Abbate The internationalization of large technical systems : dynamics of change and challenges to regulation in electricity and telecommunications / Francis McGowan Splintering networks : the social, spatial and environmental implications of the privatization and liberalization of utilities in Britain / Simon Guy, Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin Theories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weapons / Donald MacKenzie Some theoretical and critical remarks on the air transportation system and other large technical systems / Alain Gras Are there such things as small networks? / Jean-Marc Offner On control and shifting boundaries : modern society in the web of systems and networks / Reiner Grundmann High variability discourse in the history and sociology of large technical systems / Bernward Joerges
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : the evolving forms of governance of large technical systems / Olivier Coutard
Transforming an energy system : the evolution of the manufactured gas industry and the transition to natural gas in the United States (1807-1954) / Joel A. Tarr
Striking bonanza : the establishment of a natural gas regime in the Netherlands / Arne Kaijser
Technical systems and strategy : intercontinental telecommunications in the first quarter of the twentieth century / Pascal Griset
Designing and operating storm water drain systems : empirical findings and conceptual developments / Konstantinos Chatzis
Power plays : the politics of interlinking systems / Jane Summerton
From control to coordination : new governance models for information networks and other large technical systems / Janet Abbate
The internationalization of large technical systems : dynamics of change and challenges to regulation in electricity and telecommunications / Francis McGowan
Splintering networks : the social, spatial and environmental implications of the privatization and liberalization of utilities in Britain / Simon Guy, Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin
Theories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weapons / Donald MacKenzie
Some theoretical and critical remarks on the air transportation system and other large technical systems / Alain Gras
Are there such things as small networks? / Jean-Marc Offner
On control and shifting boundaries : modern society in the web of systems and networks / Reiner Grundmann
High variability discourse in the history and sociology of large technical systems / Bernward Joerges

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