Hundreds of millions of people use social technologies like Wikipedia, Facebook and YouTube every day, but what makes them work? And what is the next step? The

Addresses current issues of research into socio-technical systems (STSs). Provides suggestions on how social knowledge can synergize with technical knowledge.

The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Eliz

First published in 1989, this book presents a unique comparative perspective on the relationship between technological change and human resource management. Fol

Sociotechnical principles are now widely used around the world in both information systems and organisational design. First established in the 1940s to examine