A Framework for Strategic Network Design Assessment, Decision Making, and Moral Imagination

Bibliographic Data

ID5336983
AuthorsMatthew M Mehalik (University of Pittsburgh), Michael E Gorman (University of Virginia)
Year2006
Volume31
Issue3
Pages289-308
Publication date2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243905285841
OpenAlexW2143034243
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited8

This article presents a framework for practitioners who may be interested in maintaining adaptive stability of sociotechnical networks. The framework is developed from assembling several concepts that are useful for assessing and for drawing on appropriate moral reasoning strategies as sociotechnical networks are designed, constructed, and adapted. One such strategy involves the ability to assess degrees of perspective sharing and trading relationships in networks using moral imagination. The article uses the case of the design of an environmentally sustainable fabric to illustrate these strategic concepts. The framework also draws on other examples of cases in which sociotechnical networks have become destabilized to illustrate instances in which the framework may have been useful for decreasing a tendency for destabilization

Knowledge management · Management science · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Artificial Intelligence

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