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Before the Internet: The Relevance of Socio-Technical Systems Theory to Emerging Forms of Virtual Organisation

Before the Internet: The Relevance of Socio-Technical Systems Theory to Emerging Forms of Virtual Organisation

Ken Eason
Copyright: © 2009 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 10
ISSN: 1941-6253|EISSN: 1941-6261|ISSN: 1941-6253|EISBN13: 9781615204199|EISSN: 1941-6261|DOI: 10.4018/jskd.2009040103
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Eason, Ken. "Before the Internet: The Relevance of Socio-Technical Systems Theory to Emerging Forms of Virtual Organisation." IJSKD vol.1, no.2 2009: pp.23-32. http://doi.org/10.4018/jskd.2009040103

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Eason, K. (2009). Before the Internet: The Relevance of Socio-Technical Systems Theory to Emerging Forms of Virtual Organisation. International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 1(2), 23-32. http://doi.org/10.4018/jskd.2009040103

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Eason, Ken. "Before the Internet: The Relevance of Socio-Technical Systems Theory to Emerging Forms of Virtual Organisation," International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) 1, no.2: 23-32. http://doi.org/10.4018/jskd.2009040103

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Abstract

The widespread adoption of the internet means that, for many people, the computer is now a major means of communication with other people far and wide. As a result many forms of human organisation have an increasingly virtual character; the people who co-operate in the organisational endeavour are not necessarily in face-to-face contact. These developments can be classed as new forms of socio-technical systems in which emergent and virtual social systems are dependent upon and mediated by the internet and all the technical applications it has spawned.

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