Unpacking the dynamics of ecologies of routines: Mediators and their generative effects in routine interactions

Organization Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 722-738

  Sele, Kathrin ^a   Grand, Simon ^b  

^a France Business Science Institute   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actants; Actor network theory (ANT); Ecologies of routines; Generativity; Mediators and intermediaries; Routine interactions; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009472761     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ORSC.2015.1031     Document Type: Article

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