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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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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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Date: | October 1999 |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Number: | 5 |
| Number of Pages: | 20 |
| Page Range: | pp. 513-532 |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/14205 |
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