Hi Lyn, Thanks for adding interesting thoughts to the discussion. Although your idea about seeing managers as belonging to various networks and only being...
A flurry of answers for a flurry of questions :) 1. While others might, I personally don't consider ANT a philosophy, more of a method of analysis. 2. Sorry......
Mister John, I'm Raquel from Portugal, and I had contact with network theory in the classes of José Neves. I need some help to applicate the theory in a...
Mister John, I'm Raquel from Portugal, and I had contact with network theory in the classes of José Neves. I need some help to applicate the theory in a...
Hello Raquel, It is an interesting problem you describe. The way I try to use ANT when working with organizations is to try to understand how work is ...
Hi Grant, If you think of ANT as more of a method than a philosophy, do you also consider Yoga as more of a method than a philosophy? I like what you say...
Hi John I like your idea of following the ISO standard as an actor around the organisation. Another interesting point would be to watch how the entities it...
The symphony metaphor is in Carr's description of Monadology, extending monadism to ANT is (I think?) my move. Sorry, I should have cited him in my previous...
Hello John, Would you let me try to help answering this ? Marcus Vinicius. ... theory in the classes of José Neves. I need some help to applicate the theory...
Hello Grant, What you say about Leibniz, Yoga, ANT and ISO 9001, I find very interesting. Do you think of Leibniz as philosophy close to Yoga (Vedanta) in...
Hello Marcus, Some time ago you wrote a wonderfully insightful mail about a hungry scientist in Africa seeing a monkey eating an apple but not seeing any apple...
Hi Lyn Thanks for your positive and encouraging remarks. Seeing the story from the ARAMIS/ISO point of view seems like a very good idea, and it definitely...
I'm afraid I've led things astray here. While I think interrelations are important, I don't think Leibniz really has much if anything to do with Yoga. Who...
Hi Grant Thanks for sharing further ideas and insights. Personally, I fell there should be deep insights in seeing the organization from a mixed point of view...
"Yoga of Leibniz"? Sorry John, I'm not sure what you're translating here. Again, the stream of yoga I've learned is very practical for me, not very mystical,...
What about Game Theory, Grant? Do you think Game Theory could be used as a model for understanding actors (ANT) behaving according to a Leibinz/ISO 9001 sort...
Hi John ... Sometimes no, to me Latour nearly always writes with an eye on presenting an interesting narrative (to engage the reader, or the writer even) but...
Hi Allen, You see no difference between ANT and STAR TREK??? To me these are two very different things. ANT I see as theory, i.e. a model useful for gaining...
Hello I'm Raquel and I have test friday and the doudts keeps. Regards raquel "John K. Balor" <balor1999@...> escreveu: Hello Marcus, I would be very...
Excuse me all for being late, but I have to prepare a class for today and I have only read the email today. Thanks for you all, Marcus Vinicius "Many eyeballs...
One possibility is to fire up 'Google Scholar' and put in the search criteria 'actor network organizations and 'actor network organisations.' These gives...
Hello John, I don´t know what do you call Action Research. Could you explain it better ? Thanks a lot, Marcus Vinicius "Many eyeballs tame complexity" Eric S....
Struggling student needs some help here... In what ways can Actor Network Theory be used in terms of looking at Politics? How does politics control the theory?...
I suggest this as a starting point... Latour, Bruno. (1988a). "*The Prince* for Machines as well as for Machinations". *Technology and Social Process.* B....
Hello Marcus, What I'm thinking of is Kurt Lewin's Action Research, as defined in the 1940s, and currently posing as a alternative to traditional positivistic...
... John, Can¹t help thinking that such enterprises are the problem not the solution. I¹m away for a week or so but I¹ll give a fuller answer when I return...
