The social construction of compatibility: setting voluntary safety standards for agricultural tractors
This dissertation concerns the ways engineers and safety specialists acting as part-time volunteers cooperate in the setting of voluntary industrywide product safety standards in the farm equipment industry. These cooperative efforts are based, I contend, on collective investment criteria shared by...
Main Author: | Balderrama, Rafael J. |
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Other Authors: | Science and Technology Studies |
Format: | Others |
Language: | en |
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40007 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10192006-115616/ |
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