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Misalignment of interest: An actor-network analysis of a government budgeting practice

Asian Journal of Accounting Perspectives, 2021
Research aim: This paper aims at finding an explanation as to why a government budget operates as a ritual, as has been observed in the Sri Lankan Government budgeting practice and many Less Developed Country (LDC) accounting studies. Design/ Methodology/
Chandrasiri Abeysinghe
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Research on the Operating Mechanism of E-Commerce Poverty Alleviation in Agricultural Cooperatives: An Actor Network Theory Perspective

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
E-commerce poverty alleviation has become a new wisdom in China’s rural poverty alleviation, but there are a few empirical researches on e-commerce poverty alleviation based on farmer cooperatives.
Na Xu, Chi Xu, Yuanbo Jin, Zhenjie Yu
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Natural hazard mitigation strategies review: Actor–network theory and the eco-based approach understanding in Zimbabwe

Jàmbá, 2019
This paper presents the literature reviewed on the evolution of the natural hazard mitigation perspective and an overview of its progression to date. The article uses information taken from diverse sources such as a globally accepted scientific databases
Anyway Katanha, Danny Simatele
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The gender of science: reflections on the actor-network theory and the feminist perspective

Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2015
This article discusses some of the principles that guide the descriptive forms of the actor-network theory (ANT) of Bruno Latour and feminist standpoint theory formulated by Sandra Harding and Evelyn Fox Keller, through my research on the "Marie Curie ...
Gabriel Pugliese Cardoso
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Actor-Network methodology in science and technology studies [PDF]

مطالعات مدیریت کسب و کار هوشمند, 2022
Actor-Network theory (ANT), in social sense, is an approach to sociological analysis in the field of science and technology studies and focuses on understanding how things get to the situations in which they find themselves.
Hamidreza Rostami, Shaban Elahi, ali moeini, Alireza Hassanzadeh   +3 more
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Machines and machinations: The integrated care record service in the UK national health service [PDF]

, 2005
This paper examines the use of Actor Network Theory (ANT) as a lens to get a better understanding of the implementation of the Integrated Care Record Service (ICRS) in the UK National Health Service (NHS).
Atkinson, C, Gandecha, R, Papazafeiropoulou, A, Stergioulas, L   +3 more
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Una perspectiva híbrida y no-moderna para los estudios urbanos [PDF]

, 2012
Este artículo parte de la controversia urbana alrededor del Forat de la Vergonya y el proceso de transformación urbana de barrio del Casc Antic de Barcelona.
Grau i Solés, Marc, Subirats, Joan, Íñiguez Rueda, Lupicinio   +2 more
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Curating actor-network theory: testing object-oriented sociology in the Science Museum

Museum & Society, 2017
Across different traditions of social research, the study of science exhibitions has often taken the form of an ‘object-oriented’ inquiry. In this tradition, actor-network theory (ANT) has focused on how the processes of exhibiting objects mediate ...
Laurie Waller
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Actors and networks or agents and structures: towards a realist view of information systems [PDF]

, 2007
Actor-network theory (ANT) has achieved a measure of popularity in the analysis of information systems. This paper looks at ANT from the perspective of the social realism of Margaret Archer.
Alistair Mutch, Amsterdamska, O., Baumard, P., Bourdieu, P., Calhoun, C., Callinicos, A., Callinicos, A., Callinicos, A., Checkland, P., Ciborra, C., Collier, A., Collins, H.M., Currie, W., Dahlbom, B., Dennett, D.C., Edelman, G.M., Fowler, B., Fuller, S., Grint, K., Jones, M., Lakoff, G., Latour, B., Latour, B., Latour, B., Latour, B., Law, J., Law, J., Mutch, A., Norris, C., O'Brien, F., Roberts, R.H., Rose, H., Rose, H., Rose, S., Sayer, A., Searle, J.R., Singer, P., Sokal, A., Sokal, A.D., Walsham, G., Watson, T., Whitelegg, J., Whitley, R., Wilde, O.   +43 more
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Learning in Technology-Enhanced Medical Simulation: Locations and Knowings

Professions and Professionalism, 2015
This qualitative study focuses on how knowings and learning take place in full-scale simulation training of medical and nursing students, by drawing upon actor-network theory (ANT). ANT situates materiality as a part of the social practices.
Song-ee Ahn, Sanna Rimpiläinen, Annette Theodorsson, Tara Fenwick, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren   +4 more
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