Reconfiguration, Contestation, and Decline: Conceptualizing Mature Large Technical Systems.

Reconfiguration, Contestation, and Decline: Conceptualizing Mature Large Technical Systems.
复制标题

DOI:
10.1177/0162243918768074
复制
发表时间:
2018-11
期刊:
Science, technology & human values
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Ting MB
Ting MB
中科院分区:
其他
文献类型:
--
作者:
Sovacool BK;Lovell K;Ting MB

文献摘要

参考文献

被引文献

相似文献

大型技术系统(LTS)是现代生活方式的组成部分,但很难分析。在本文中,我们提出了一个概念的LTS使用成熟的“阶段”的概念,借鉴创新研究,科学和技术研究,政治学,基础设施的社会学,技术史和治理的见解。我们开始通过定义LTS作为一个分析单位,并解释其概念的效用和新奇,将其置于其他突出的社会技术理论。其次,我们认为,在LTS已经通过了(重叠)的阶段提出的发明,扩张,增长,势头,和风格的托马斯休斯,成熟的LTS经历了额外的(重叠)阶段的重新配置,重新定位(受压力,如漂移和危机),并最终停滞和下降。我们说明了这些分析阶段的历史案例研究和概念文献,并建议未来的研究,以完善和发展的LTS框架,特别是有关更精细的类型,时间维度,并扩大系统用户关闭。我们的目标是有助于LTS的共同进化的理论辩论,以及有关系统相关的使用,社会技术变革和政策制定的实证讨论。
Large technical systems (LTS) are integral to modern lifestyles but arduous to analyze. In this paper, we advance a conceptualization of LTS using the notion of mature “phases,” drawing from insights into innovation studies, science and technology studies, political science, the sociology of infrastructure, history of technology, and governance. We begin by defining LTS as a unit of analysis and explaining its conceptual utility and novelty, situating it among other prominent sociotechnical theories. Next, we argue that after LTS have moved through the (overlapping) phases proposed by Thomas Hughes of invention, expansion, growth, momentum, and style, mature LTS undergo the additional (overlapping) phases of reconfiguration, contestation (subject to pressures such as drift and crisis), and eventually stagnation and decline. We illustrate these analytical phases with historical case studies and the conceptual literature, and close by suggesting future research to refine and develop the LTS framework, particularly related to more refined typologies, temporal dimensions, and a broadening of system users. We aim to contribute to theoretical debates about the coevolution of LTS as well as empirical discussions about system-related use, sociotechnical change, and policy-making.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.068
发表时间: 2012-11-01
期刊: ENERGY POLICY
影响因子: 9
作者:
Fouquet, Roger
通讯作者: Fouquet, Roger
DOI: 10.1177/053901888027002002
发表时间: 1988-06-01
影响因子: 1.1
作者:
GOKALP, I
通讯作者: GOKALP, I
DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00375
发表时间: 2016-11-01
影响因子: 4.8
作者:
Goldthau, Andreas;Sovacool, Benjamin K.
通讯作者: Sovacool, Benjamin K.
DOI: 10.1017/asr.2015.7
发表时间: 2015-04-01
影响因子: 1.6
作者:
Green, Nathaniel;Sovacool, Benjamin K.;Hancock, Kathleen
通讯作者: Hancock, Kathleen
DOI: 10.1080/19416520903053598
发表时间: 2009-01-01
影响因子: 21.2
作者:
Battilana, Julie;Leca, Bernard;Boxenbaum, Eva
通讯作者: Boxenbaum, Eva