Ranking Devices: The Socio-Materiality of Ratings

Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pollock, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affordance; Devices; Magic quadrant; Markets; Rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874557926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199664054.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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