Shadowing software and clinical records: On the ethnography of non-humans and heterogeneous contexts

Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 357-378

  Bruni, Attila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Objects and technologies; Organizational ethnography; Practice; Relational materialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 17644417537     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508405051272     Document Type: Article

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