Actor-network theory and organizing
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Actor-network theory and organizing
Liber , Copenhagen Business School Press, c2005
- : Sweden
- : Rest of the world
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-350)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The book serves as an excellent primer for those wanting to learn about Actor-Network Theory through the lens of organisation theory.
Table of Contents
Constructing macro actors according to ANT "My name is Lifebuoy". An actor-network emerging from an action-net Technological strategy as macro-actor: How humanness might be made of steel The little engine that could: On the "managing" qualities of technology Artifacts rule! How organizing happens in open source software projects Organizational routines and the macro-actor The organization as nexus of institutional macro actors: The story of a lopsided recruitment case Powers in a factory Macro-actors and the sounds of the silenced Inscribing organizational change with information technology The internet web portal as an enrolment advice The making of knowledge society: Intellectual capital and paradoxes of managing knowledge The re-formatting of electricity, and the making of a market Explaining the macro-actors in practice Productive power, organized markets and actor-network theory Actor-networks: ecology and entrepreneurs Net-working on a neonatal intensive care unit: The baby as virtual object
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