Technological change in developing countries: opening the black box of process using actor–network theory
In: Development studies research, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 33-50
ISSN: 2166-5095
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In: Development studies research, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 33-50
ISSN: 2166-5095
In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 14-31
ISSN: 1099-162X
In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 14-31
ISSN: 0271-2075
In: Actor-Network Theory for Development Working Paper no. 5
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In: Heeks , R & Stanforth , C 2007 , ' Understanding e-Government project trajectories from an actor-network perspective ' European Journal of Information Systems , vol 16 , no. 2 , pp. 165-177 . DOI:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000676
A number of models have been offered to help explain the trajectories of e-Government projects: their frequent failures and their rarer successes. Most, though, lack a sense of the political interaction of stakeholders that is fundamental to understanding the public sector. This paper draws on actor-network theory to provide a perspective that is used to explain the trajectory of an e-Government case study. This perspective is found to provide a valuable insight into the local and global actor-networks that surround e-Government projects. The mobilisation, interaction and disintegration of these networks underpins the course of such projects, and can itself be understood in relation to network actor power: not through a static conception of power over others but through the dynamic-enacted concept of power to. As well as providing a research tool for analysis of e-Government project trajectories, the localglobal networks approach also offers insights into e-Government leadership as a process of network formation and maintenance; and into the tensions between network stabilisation and design stabilisation. © 2007 Operational Research Society Ltd. All rights reserved.
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