Ethnography and the social structure of work Export

@incollection{citeulike:3474327, abstract = {Approaching the issue of dependable design in organisationally embedded socio-technical systems from the perspective of the social structure of work enables a new way of thinking about the relationships and interactions between social systems and technical systems. Although we have argued that the structures of these systems cannot accurately be united in a single form in a model (or series of models) we believe that a structural approach allows us to make deeper, more fundamental, connections between them and may aid in mediating between the rich descriptions of field studies and the abstract modelling of technical design.}, address = {London}, author = {Martin, David and Sommerville, Ian}, booktitle = {Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective}, citeulike-article-id = {3474327}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-111-3_9}, doi = {10.1007/1-84628-111-3_9}, editor = {Besnard, Denis and Gacek, Cristina and Jones, Cliff B.}, journal = {Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective}, keywords = {2006, ethno, inf}, pages = {169--188}, posted-at = {2008-11-03 09:29:06}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {Ethnography and the social structure of work}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-111-3_9}, year = {2006} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:3474327 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3474327 N2 - Approaching the issue of dependable design in organisationally embedded socio-technical systems from the perspective of the social structure of work enables a new way of thinking about the relationships and interactions between social systems and technical systems. Although we have argued that the structures of these systems cannot accurately be united in a single form in a model (or series of models) we believe that a structural approach allows us to make deeper, more fundamental, connections between them and may aid in mediating between the rich descriptions of field studies and the abstract modelling of technical design. JF - Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective AD - London EP - 188 TI - Ethnography and the social structure of work PB - Springer T2 - Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective SP - 169 KW - 2006 KW - ethno KW - inf AU - Martin, David AU - Sommerville, Ian A2 - Besnard, Denis A2 - Gacek, Cristina A2 - Jones, Cliff PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-111-3_9 ER -