Search for dissertations about: "Actor network theory"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 79 swedish dissertations containing the words Actor network theory.

  2. 6. Information system and organization as multipurpose network

    Author : Jonny Holmström; Erik Stolterman; Eric Monteiro; Daniel Robey; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; IS and organization; organizational change; organizational behavior; actor-network theory; interpretive case study; Informatics; Informatik; Informatics and systems science; Informatik och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract :    Information systems (IS) are widely acknowledged to be central for contemporary organizations. Along with the increasing importance of new IS in organizations, a school of thought has developed over the last few years that claims that IS and organizations mutually shape each other. READ MORE

  4. 7. Mobile Network Operators and Cooperation : A Tele-Economic Study of Infrastructure sharing and Mobile Payment Services

    Author : Jan Markendahl; Jens Zander; Per Andersson; Heikki Hämmäinen; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Telecommunication theory; Telekommunikationsteori;

    Abstract : Mobile network operators are currently faced with a number of challenges at the market. The revenues from voice services have decreased the last couple of years. Mobile broadband access services are being adopted and the demand is increasing. The increasing traffic volumes require investments in order to increase the network capacity. READ MORE

  5. 8. Sociotechnical Knowledge. An Operationalised Approach to Localised Infrastructure Planning and Sustainable Urban Development

    Author : Jaan-Henrik Kain; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; process; critical realism; sociotechnical; strategic choice approach; sustainable development; practice; action; social construction; decision-making; capital; implementation; infrastructure; urban; actor network theory; local; systems theory; design; partnerships; planning;

    Abstract : In processes of urban infrastructural reconfiguration, there is a counterproductive tension between tendencies of de-monopolisation and market liberalisation, on the one hand, and ambitions for sustainable urban development, drawing on Keynesian reformism and ecological modernisation, on the other. In this thesis, the aim is to overcome this tension and to facilitate a concrete operationalisation of the notion &'sustainable urban development' within concrete and localised processes of planning, design, decision-making and implementation. READ MORE

  6. 9. Pluripotent Circulations: Analyzing Articulations of Stem Cells in the USA, prior to 2001

    Author : Morten Sager; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Actor-Network Theory; meta-theory; obligatory point of passage; boundary objects; sociotechnical reality; articulations; human embryonic stem cells; spare embryos; pluripotency;

    Abstract : In this thesis, stem cell research and politics in the USA are analyzed by using actor-network theory (ANT). Here ANT is put to work on largely textual materials, often directly from US political settings, such as Congressional debates and national panels. READ MORE

  7. 10. Angels in Unstable Sociomaterial Relations : Stories of Information Technology

    Author : Pirjo Elovaara; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information Technology IT ; Actor-Network Theory ANT ; Actor-Network Theory and After ANTa ; Feminist technology; Technoscience studies;

    Abstract : I have explored spaces, where negotiations of border transgressions take place and where issues of technology and politics mingle. We meet a diversity of actors in the world of information technology (IT): political texts, people and technology participating in numerous sociomaterial relations. READ MORE