Tuesday 22 June 2010

Boland and Schultze (1996)

From Work to Activity: Technology and the Narrative of Progress

Authors: Richard J. Boland and Ulrike Schultze
Source: Information Technology and Changes in Organisational Work edited by Wanda J. Orlikowski, Geoff Walsham, Matthew R. Jones and Janice I. DeGross (1995), London: Chapman and Hall, pp. 308-324.

Vidgen and McMaster (1996)

Black Boxes, Non-Human Stakeholders and the Translation of IT. through Mediation

Authors: Richard Vidgen and Tom McMaster
Source: Information Technology and Changes in Organisational Work edited by Wanda J. Orlikowski, Geoff Walsham, Matthew R. Jones and Janice I. DeGross (1995), London: Chapman and Hall, pp. 250-271.

Monterio and Hanseth (1996)

Social Shaping of Information Infrastructure: On Being Specific about the Technology

Authors: Eric Monterio and Ole Hanseth
Source: Information Technology and Changes in Organisational Work edited by Wanda J. Orlikowski, Geoff Walsham, Matthew R. Jones and Janice I. DeGross (1995), London: Chapman and Hall, pp. 325-343.

White and Spicer (2008)

Is Actor Network Theory Critique?

Authors: Andrea White and Andre Spicer
Source: Organization Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2008), pp. 611-629.

Callon (1987)

Society in the Making: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis

Author: Michel Callon
Source: The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes and Trevor J. Pinch (1987), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 83-103.

Callon (1986)

The Sociology of an Actor-Network: The Case of the Electric Vehicle

Author: Michel Callon
Source: Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology: Sociology of Science in the Real World edited by Michel Callon, John Law and Arie Rip (1986), London: Macmillan, pp. 19-34.

See Also:
Struggles and Negotiations to define what is Problematic and what is not: the Sociology of Translation.

Author: Michel Callon
Source: The Social Process of Scientific Investigation: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook edited by Karin D. Knorr, Roger Krohn and Richard D. Whitley (1980), Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel Publishing, pp. 197-219.

Callon (1986)

Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay

Author: Michel Callon
Source: Power, Action and Belief: A New Science of Knowledge edited by John Law (1986), London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 196-223.

Sunday 20 June 2010

Barley (2010)

Building an Institutionalized Field to Corral a Government: A Case to Set an Agenda for Organization Studies

Author: Stephen R. Barley
Source: Organization Studies, Vol. 31 (2010), pp. 777-805.

Thursday 17 June 2010

Gross (2009)

A Pragmatist Theory of Social Mechanisms

Author: Neil Gross
Source: American Sociological Review, Vol. 74 (2009), pp. 358-379.

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Bloomfield et al. (1992)

Machines and Manoeuvres: Responsibility Accounting and the Construction of Hospital Information Systems

Authors: Brian P. Bloomfield, Rod Coombs, David J. Cooper and David Rea
Source: Accounting, Management and Information Technology, Vol. 2, No. 4 (1992), pp. 197-219.

Manning (2008)

Goffman on Organizations

Author: Peter K. Manning
Source: Organization Studies, Vol. 29, No. 5 (2008), pp. 677-699.