Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ;
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13
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Introduction : the evolving forms of governance of large technical systems / Olivier Coutard -- Transforming an energy system : the evolution of the manufactured gas industry and the transition to natural gas in the United States (1807-1954) / Joel A. Tarr -- Striking bonanza : the establishment of a natural gas regime in the Netherlands / Arne Kaijser -- Technical systems and strategy : intercontinental telecommunications in the first quarter of the twentieth century / Pascal Griset -- Designing and operating storm water drain systems : empirical findings and conceptual developments / Konstantinos Chatzis -- Power plays : the politics of interlinking systems / Jane Summerton -- From control to coordination : new governance models for information networks and other large technical systems / Janet Abbate -- The internationalization of large technical systems : dynamics of change and challenges to regulation in electricity and telecommunications / Francis McGowan -- Splintering networks : the social, spatial and environmental implications of the privatization and liberalization of utilities in Britain / Simon Guy, Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin -- Theories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weapons / Donald MacKenzie -- Some theoretical and critical remarks on the air transportation system and other large technical systems / Alain Gras -- Are there such things as small networks? / Jean-Marc Offner -- On control and shifting boundaries : modern society in the web of systems and networks / Reiner Grundmann -- High variability discourse in the history and sociology of large technical systems / Bernward Joerges.