Actor-network theory and organizing /
Actor-network theory and organizing /
Actor-network theory and organising
edited by Barbara Czarniawska & Tor Hernes.
- 356 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
8763001446 9788763001441 9147074817 9789147074815
Sociology--Philosophy
Action theory
Act (Philosophy)
Social networks
HM585 / .A27 2005
301.01
Includes bibliographical references.
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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
8763001446 9788763001441 9147074817 9789147074815
Sociology--Philosophy
Action theory
Act (Philosophy)
Social networks
HM585 / .A27 2005
301.01