Revealing violence in the structure of sociotechnical systems theory: The Historiography of the Tavistock Institute’s ‘Ahmedabad Experiment’
Published online on June 15, 2026
Abstract
Organization, Ahead of Print.
This article revisits the Tavistock Institute of Human Relation’s (TIHR) contribution to the field of Organisation Studies (OS) in the post-World War II era: Sociotechnical Systems (STS) Theory. Although the concept ‘sociotechnical’ was born out of TIHR’s ...
This article revisits the Tavistock Institute of Human Relation’s (TIHR) contribution to the field of Organisation Studies (OS) in the post-World War II era: Sociotechnical Systems (STS) Theory. Although the concept ‘sociotechnical’ was born out of TIHR’s ...