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Assembling Interdisciplinary Energy Research through an Actor Network Theory (ANT) frame

Energy Research and Social Science, 2016
Much has been achieved over the last decade to highlight the need for energy research to look beyond the technical dimensions of energy systems to include the social elements of energy consumption and production. Inter-disciplinary research in this area has thus been growing.
Catherine Mei Ling Wong
exaly   +4 more sources

Using Actor Network Theory (ANT) as an analytic tool in order to effect superior PACS implementation

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2007
Currently, one of the major challenges facing healthcare organisations globally is to judiciously apply new technologies and intelligently re-design antiquated processes and structures so that the application of these new technologies will be optimal. In so doing, it is believed that healthcare organisations will then be better positioned to offer cost
Nilmini Wickramasinghe   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

An Application of Actor Network Theory (ANT) in Business-to-Business Procurement Platform

2023
Actor network theory is a prominent theory on establishing connection between actors in a whole process. In this study, the application of the theory examines and establishes the connection between six actors that consist of human and nonhuman actors.
Siti Afiqah Zainuddin   +10 more
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Actor Network Theory (ANT)

2019
Actor network theory (ANT) or the “sociology of translation,” is introduced, being a systematic way to explain the mechanics and dynamics of relational interactions, within networks. The unique ontology of ANT equates human and non-human systems thereby conferring the MOU social partnership agreement with the status of an actor. The text within the MOU
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Implementation of Customer Relationship Management System (CRMS) In Healthcare: An Actor-Network Theory (ANT) Perception

2021 International Conference on Computer & Information Sciences (ICCOINS), 2021
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the customer relationship management system (CRMS) implementation using actor-network theory (ANT) in the medical field. Many studies have suggested that the development of CRM can be very beneficial for hospitals, medical professionals and patients. At the same time, other studies have indicated that CRM
Yahia Baashar   +3 more
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Ability of the Actor Network Theory (ANT) to Model and Interpret an Electronic Market

2004
The nature of information systems is often complex and involves both human and nonhuman components. This is particularly true in an electronic market. Actor Network Theory (ANT) can be used in general to describe the actors, intermediaries, framing and power that are the most important components of such an electronic market, which we call a network ...
Murat Baygeldi, Steve Smithson
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Analyzing Internet-related Social Work Opportunities of an Approach inspired by Actor-Network Theory (ANT)

AHFE International, 2022
The number of areas of society that are being digitised continues to increase and so Internet offers are becoming increasingly important. This development also affects social work, whose specialists meanwhile see a trend to expand the internet-related offerings. This has been further strengthened in germany by the lockdowns since March 2020.
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A Critical Review of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Its Use in Education Research

2020
This chapter, which expands on a previous publication, presents a critique of actor-network theory as a sociomaterial concept. Furthermore, the author problematizes the relative under-application of this “sensibility” in education research, while simultaneously exploring its contribution as an analytical framework through its central concepts of “actor-
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An actor-network theory (ANT) approach to Turkish e-government gateway initiative [PDF]

open access: possible, 2009
There are various models proposed in the literature to analyze trajectories of e-Government projects in terms of success and failure. Yet, only the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective (Heeks and Stanforth, 2007) considers the interaction factors among network actors and actants. This paper proposes the ANT for approaching to the Turkish e-Government
Aykaç, D. Selcen O.   +3 more
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