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UNSPECIFIED (1999) Man-machine systems: People and technology in OR. SYSTEMIC PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCH, 12 (5). pp. 513-532. ISSN 1094-429X.
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Abstract
This paper provides an exploration of how different understandings of "man-machine systems" have accompanied developments in Operational Research. In particular, the paper will challenge the notion that we are in a position of mastery with respect to technology. Both Hard OR and Soft OR are criticized for a failure to examine adequately the relationship between people and technology. Toward the end of the paper a new way of understanding this relationship will he proposed in terms of technologies of the self or what Michel Foucault called "ethics."
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | SYSTEMIC PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCH | ||||
Publisher: | KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL | ||||
ISSN: | 1094-429X | ||||
Official Date: | October 1999 | ||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||
Number: | 5 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 20 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 513-532 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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