Cambridge University Press Network Theorizing Knowledge Work by Leslie Bethell

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They would plop you 11 Three orders in this instance, anyway. Jeannie told me that when network coordinators handle these orders themselves rather than rely on other companies, sometimes they have to coordinate and place orders with several different companies, each of which owns a different piece of the network. ” Jeannie eventually learned this Greek, then discovered that CLEC Provisioning had learned an entirely different Greek in which the same words and phrases meant quite different things.

In these settings, long-term relationships flourished; workers held long-term or lifelong jobs, maintained steady contacts with other organizations and with the public, and built up considerable expertise (cf. Braverman, 1974). They fulfilled clearly defined roles and developed strong working relationships. , 2002, p. 205). But recent changes in work, particularly knowledge work, have destabilized these settings: downsizing, automation, flattening of work hierarchies, increasing numbers of relationships between companies, and continual reorganization (p.

Actants continually convince their allies to support them in their aims and form enough alliances that they can work around traitors. The actor–network, that is, constantly engages in a project that is essentially political and rhetorical and that involves both consolidation and expansion. Actor–networks expand through intersecting, enrolling, and translating other actants. They consolidate through the ties that bind – the ever-tightening mutual enrollment of intersected actants. Actor–network theory, of course, is preoccupied with how power works (Latour, 1986).

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