Actor-Network Theory and Routine Dynamics

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A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa

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2021

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Actor-network theory has always been an inspiring theoretical and methodological source for Routine Dynamics research. Seeing routines as networks of actants and as a consequence rather than a cause of collective action enabled scholars to move away from a priori assumptions about the world and shift their attention to situated performances, multiplicity, and connections-in action. In this chapter, I provide a brief historical account of actor-network theory highlighting some of its central authors and their work before unravelling how Routine Dynamics scholars have appropriated it—ironically, often as an undercover actor that remains invisible at first sight—and conclude by reflecting on how actor-network theory can continue to be of use for and shape Routine Dynamics research.

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Routines, routine dynamics, actor-network theory, actants, connections, translation, multipicity, relationality, inscriptions

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Sele, K 2021, Actor-Network Theory and Routine Dynamics . in L D'Adderio, K Dittrich, M Feldman, B Pentland, C Rerup & D Seidl (eds), Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics . Cambridge University Press, pp. 73-84 . https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993340.008