Uncovering causality in narratives of collaboration: Actor-network theory and event structure analysis

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ponti, Marisa ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actornetwork theory; Case study; Causal interpretation; Collaboration; Event structure analysis; Narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 82855167300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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