The Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems: A Conceptual Framework and an Action Research Program

By E. Trist. 1981

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Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims (2020, neutral): “See Trist [21].”
Defining information systems as work systems: implications for the IS field (2008, unknown): “Trist (1981, p. 11) “Primary work systems … are the systems which carry out the set of activities involved in an identifiable and bounded subsystem of a whole organization - such as a line department or service unit.””
An empirical investigation of the key factors for success in software process improvement (2005, background): “Besides, the Tavistock studies [92] reframed the view of organizational systems, proposing the sociotechnical system (STS) in DYB A: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE KEY FACTORS FOR SUCCESS IN SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT 411”
Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future (2013, unknown): “…subsystems within organizations (Cherns, 1976; Davis & Taylor, 1979; Lamb & Kling, 2003; Journal of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 72-121, February 2013 91 Majchrzak & Gasser, 2000; Majchrzak & Borys, 2001; Pasmore, 1985; Thomas, Gupta, & Bostrom, 2008; Trist, 1981).”
Achieving Effective Remote Working During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Work Design Perspective (2020, background): “This stream of literature derives from the socio-technical systems perspective (Trist, 1981; Trist & Bamforth, 1951), which regards remote work as a context rather than an independent variable, arguing that characteristics of remote work should fit the new way of working to achieve better performanc”
Self-Organizing Roles on Agile Software Development Teams (2013, background): “From a socio-technical systems perspective, research on self-organizing teams dates back to the Tavistock group’s study of English coal miners as autonomous groups in the 1950s [52].”
Global labour unions and just transition to a green economy (2015, methodology): “This task is all the more appropriate because the earlier approaches to socio-technical systems were motivated by a desire to better understand the impacts of socio-technical transitions on work and workers (Trist 1981).”
Close encounters of the digital kind: A research agenda for the digitalization of public services (2019, background): “digital interaction between the citizen and the public official as being part of a sociotechnical system (Trist, 1981), where digitalization requires particular prerequisites and enables outcomes in both technical and social aspects of the system (Henman, 2010).”
The Matthew effect in empirical data (2014, background): “The evolution of socio-technical networks in particular has been in the focus of attention for decades [99].”
The Sociomaterialty of Information Systems: Current Status, Future Directions (2014, background): “This was assumed to lead to both improved economic performance and quality of working life (Trist 1981).”
Making the ‘MOST’ out of RFID technology: a research agenda for the study of the adoption, usage and impact of RFID (2007, background): “…Systems and Technologies, which focused on J. Curtin MIS Research Center, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA e-mail: curti156@umn.edu R. J. Kauffman (&) Center for Advancing Business Through Technology and IS Department, W. P. Carey School of…”