Recent European policy papers call for the consideration of human values in design information technology. Value Sensitive Design (VSD) provides a framework systematically accounting technical artefacts. This paper examines how distribution power within socio-technical ecosystems poses challenge application VSD. It identifies four crucial factors determining effect on VSD: level decentralisatio...

The humanistic ideals of the Tavistock Institute produced promising insight on how to combine technical capabilities and social aspects of organizations to address both organizational and employees’ needs. This conceptual essay delves into this historical background of social technical approaches. Then it will turn to the early development of socio-technical approaches within the field of Infor...

Modelling and abstraction is fundamental to software engineering, with models of different types being used by engineers to communicate. The practical use of socio-technical approaches has to acknowledge this by providing a means of modelling, and by integrating with existing approaches. [. . . ] The abstractions currently used in technical system modelling (e.g., use-cases, objects, etc.) do n...

• Institutional complexity arises from overlapping institutional logics with incompatible demands. is inherent and will inevitably arise within socio-technical transition trajectories. We develop a phase model on how builds up settles in trajectory. A case study the water sector of San Francisco illustrates can be successfully mitigated. Intermediary actors, organizational adaptations field-lev...