The DOI matches its Crossref record; 3 of the 3 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Actors and Networks or Agents and Structures: Towards a Realist View of Information Systems
Abstract
Actor-network theory (ANT) has achieved a measure of popularity in the analysis of information systems. This paper looks at ANT from the perspective of the social realism of Margaret Archer. It argues that the main issue with ANT from a realist perspective is its adoption of a `flat' ontology, particularly with regard to human beings. It explores the value of incorporating concepts from ANT into a social realist approach, but argues that the latter offers a more productive way of approaching information systems.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511815355 · Cited by 35,324
The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations
Orlikowski, W. J. (1992) · Organization Science · doi:10.1287/orsc.3.3.398 · Cited by 4,957
Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies
(1999) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.37-1511 · Cited by 1,428
Cited by
Theoretical foundations for the study of sociomateriality
Leonardi, P. M. (2013) · Information and Organization · doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2013.02.002 · Cited by 654
GREENHALGH, T., POTTS, H. W. W., WONG, G., BARK, P., & SWINGLEHURST, D. (2009) · The Milbank Quarterly · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2009.00578.x · Cited by 541
Is Actor Network Theory Critique?
Whittle, A., & Spicer, A. (2008) · Organization Studies · doi:10.1177/0170840607082223 · Cited by 379
Theorising big IT programmes in healthcare: Strong structuration theory meets actor-network theory
Greenhalgh, T., & Stones, R. (2010) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.034 · Cited by 371
Narrative Networks: Patterns of Technology and Organization
Pentland, B. T., & Feldman, M. S. (2007) · Organization Science · doi:10.1287/orsc.1070.0283 · Cited by 375
Metadata
- Authors
- Mutch, A.
- Venue
- Organization
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 477-496
- ISSN
- 1350-5084 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7323
- OpenAlex
- W2063971145
- Cited by
- 172
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 19.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Actors and Networks or Agents and Structures: Towards a Realist View of Information Systems. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1177/135050840293013
- The paper
- Mutch, A. (2002). Actors and Networks or Agents and Structures: Towards a Realist View of Information Systems. Organization. https://doi.org/10.1177/135050840293013
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
