Ordering actors, organising work

This paper looks at the organising of work, as in who does what, when and how. We explore the relationship between work as situated action on the one hand and unfolding within the confines of stable social structures on the other. Being an underdeveloped topic of research, we analyse how more stable structures of work are being produced. By conceptualising the organising of work as a special case of ordering actors in a network, we find that the organising of work is enacted and distributed among actors. We also argue that the organising of work can't be treated as theoretically pregiven, but rather as emergent.