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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Regional innovation policies are currently influenced by a series of territorial innovation models, with the regional innovation system (RIS) approach being one of the prominent examples. The rationale of smart specialization strategies (S3s) is deeply influenced by the RIS concept and highlights the importance of entrepreneurial discovery and
Hugo Pinto
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Wild animals in urban environment: Subjectivity and relations [PDF]
lo Squaderno, 2016 Cities prove to be hybrid environments. The concept of hybrid is derived from the writings of French philosopher Bruno Latour, who applied the concept to describe different phenomena that have embedded in them the generally made distinctions between ...
Nelly Mäekivi
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Quaderni di Sociologia, 2018 Bruno Latour is a renowned author whose works have influenced all branches of social sciences in the last thirty years. After his path-breaking ethnographies of scientific laboratories and the development, alongside M.
Nicola Manghi
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The agency of hybrids: overcoming the symmetrophobic block [PDF]
, 2005 We respond to ‘challenge 3’ presented in Rose, Jones and Truex’s excellent polemic by way of elucidating the meanings of hybrids, actants, agency and symmetry in Actor-Network Theory.
McMaster, T, Wastell, DG
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Narrating the Natural History Unit: institutional orderings and spatial strategies [PDF]
, 2000 This paper develops a conceptualisation of institutional geographies through participation observation and interviews in the BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU), and the approach of actor network theory.
Davies, G
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Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Guided by the Actor‐Network Theory (ANT) perspective, this study explores user experiences with the perceived agency of algorithmic technology in the context of talent management (TM) decisions. Through a qualitative analysis of 11 client companies utilizing algorithmic TM decision‐making technology provided by an HR tech service firm, we ...
Violetta Khoreva +2 more
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Teksty Drugie, 2021 Felski examines how Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory can influence our understanding of literature, especially the relationship between readers and the literary text.
Rita Felski
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Sociologija: Mintis ir Veiksmas, 2004 Recenzija: Latour, Bruno. 2004. Mes niekada nebuvome modernūs. Simetrinės antropologijos esė. Vilnius: ALK / Homo liber.
Algimantas Valantiejus
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