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A social environmental model of socio-technical performance

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  • Brian Whitworth
  • Cheickna Sylla

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This paper analyses the nature of social performance, to explain how socio-technical systems (STSs) like chat, e-markets, social networks and wikis can succeed despite being free of charge. It defines the non-zero-sum synergy gains of cooperation and how self-interested acts can collapse the society that creates them. It explains how physical human society dealt with this 'social dilemma' then relates that to the socio-technical advance. In this model, society is a social environment within a world environment, so its citizens face the dual requirements of self-interest and social-interest, which can be satisfied by anchoring one demand then managing the other, e.g., competing within a social context, as in markets, or community service within an individual context of sufficiency. Overall, the paper proposes a new social form that socio-technical systems illustrate and which could be the future of humanity.

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  • Brian Whitworth & Cheickna Sylla, 2012. "A social environmental model of socio-technical performance," International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 11(1), pages 1-29.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijnvor:v:11:y:2012:i:1:p:1-29
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