The Governance of Large Technical Systems

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ISBN: 9780415196031 | 0415196035
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/14/1999

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Combining international case studies with conceptual research this book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the governance of large technical systems at firm, industry and state levels.

List of illustrations

viii

List of contributors

About the book

xiii

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the evolving forms of governance of large technical systems

(16)

Olivier Coutard

PART 1 On traditional modes of governance

(74)

Transforming an energy system: the evolution of the manufactured gas industry and the transition to natural gas in the United States (1807--1954)

(19)

Joel A. Tarr

Striking bonanza: the establishment of a natural gas regime in the Netherlands

(20)

Arne Kaijser

Technical systems and strategy: intercontinental telecommunications in the first quarter of the twentieth century

(15)

Pascal Griset

Designing and operating storm water drain systems: empirical findings and conceptual developments

(18)

Konstantinos Chatzis

PART 2 New challenges

(80)

Power plays: the politics of interlinking systems

(21)

Jane Summerton

From control to coordination: new governance models for information networks and other large technical systems

114

(16)

Janet Abbate

The internationalization of large technical systems: dynamics of change and challenges to regulation in electricity and telecommunications

130

(19)

Francis McGowan

Splintering networks: the social, spatial and environmental implications of the privatization and liberalization of utilities in Britain

149

(22)

Simon Guy

Stephen Graham

Simon Marvin

PART 3 On the governability of complex technologies

171

(44)

Theories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weapons

173

(26)

Donald Mackenzie

Some theoretical and critical remarks on the air transportation system and other large technical systems

199

(16)

Alain Gras

PART 4 Conceptualizing governance for interorganizational networks

215

(76)

Are there such things as small networks?

217

(22)

Jean-Marc Offner

On control and shifting boundaries: modern society in the web of systems and networks

239

(19)

Reiner Grundmann

High variability discourse in the history and sociology of large technical systems

258

(33)

Bernward Joerges

General index

291

(6)

Index of authors cited

297

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The Governance of Large Technical Systems

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