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What does ANT stand for?

Actor-Network Theory


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Essentially, actor-network theory begins with the metaphoric premise of associations, and is a method to describe the deployment of those associations (or connections).
Essays explore contexts such as the classroom, community-based continuing education courses, colleges, the workplace, online learning, and conceptual frameworks such as activity theory, genre studies, actor-network theory, complexity theory, and pragmatism.
Both global commodity chain analysis and actor-network theory fall within this broader category of network methodology--where networks as opposed to nation-states or firms become the primary unit of investigation.
Organization unbound: actor-network theory, research strategy and institutional flexibility.
Since the original publication of the Uppsala model in 1977, theoretical and methodological developments within literatures such as structuration and actor-network theory, that are capable of bridging structure and agency, have been developed and present productive opportunities for advancing internationalisation research (Whittington 1992, Law 1992, Fox 2000, Pozzebon 2004).
Finally, technology is examined from the perspective of social constructionism and actor-network theory.
It should," I respond, "Roth and McGinn explained that they were using your conceptions of knowledge and power combined with actor-network theory in their examination.
Rather than a point defined by boundaries, I prefer, following actor-network theory, to think of a place as the mobilization of things.

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