| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ; 13
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Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public utilities -- Management.
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Public utilities -- Management. |
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Transportation -- Management.
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Transportation -- Management. |
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Transportation. |
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Telecommunication -- Management.
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Telecommunication -- Management. |
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Corporate governance.
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Corporate governance. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Coutard, Olivier, 1965-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Governance of large technical systems. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415196035 (DLC) 98033941 (OCoLC)39678089 |
| ISBN |
0203159012 (electronic book) |
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9780203159019 (electronic book) |
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0203016890 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780203016893 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0415196035 |
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