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Introductory Essay: The Evolving Forms of Governance of Large TechnicalSystems Olivier Coutard, Center National de la Recerche Scientifique, FrancePart 1. On Traditional Modes of Governance Transforming an energy system:The evolution of the manufactured gas industry and the transition of naturalgas in the United States (1807-1954) Joel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon UniversityUSA Striking Bonanza. The establishment of a natural gas regime in theNetherlands Arne Kaijer, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SwedenTechnical systems and strategy: Intercontinental telecommunications in thefirst quarter of the twentieth century Pascal Griset, University of Bordeaux,France Designing and operating storm water drain systems: Empirical findingsand conceptual developments Konstantinos Chatzis, Ecole nationale des Pontset Chaussees, France Part 2. New Challenges Power plays: the politics ofinterlinking systems Jane Summerton, University of Linkoping, Sweden Fromcontrol to coordination: new governance models for information networks andother large technical systems Janet Abbate, Rutgers University, USA TheInternationalisation of large technical systems: Dynamics of change andchallenges to regulation in electricity and telecommunications FrancisMcGowan, University of Suusex, UK Splintering networks: The social, spatial,and environmental implications of the privatisation and liberalisation ofutilities in Britain Simon Guy, Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin, all atUniversity of Newcastle, UK Part 3. On the Governability of ComplexTechnologies Theories of Technology and the abolition of nuclear weaponsDonald MacKenzie, Edinburgh University, UK Some theoretical and criticalremarks on the air transportation system and other large technical systemsAlain Gras, Sorbonne University, France Part 4. Conceptualizing Governancefor Inter-Organizational Networks Are there such things as small networks?Jean-marc Offner, LATTS, France On control and shifting boundaries. Modernsociety in the web of systems and networks Reiner Grundmann, AstonUniversity, Birmingham High variability discourse in the history andsociology of large technical systems Bernward Joerges, Technische UniversitatBerlin, Germany