There has been significant recent interest in the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social movements protesting against authoritarian regimes. Much of the literature on this topic can be framed in terms of dualities: seeing either technology or (less often) society as the cause of impacts characterised as either liberation or repression. This paper seeks to move beyon...

Purpose This paper examines the influence of normal science tradition, epitomized by notion that “theory is king”, on contemporary accounting research and epistemological tensions may emerge as this idea applied to particular ways studying accounting. For illustrative purposes, authors focus informed actor-network theory (ANT) which can be seen an “extreme case” in sense it is, principle, diffi...

The organizational theory literature has identified the emergence and evolution of organizational forms as a critical issue to be addressed, yet new ways of looking at organizational form have yet to be addressed and there are concerns about the largely ahistorical and aprocessual character of much organizational theorizing. While path dependence, as conventionally conceived, presents an avenue...

In this paper we apply some of the insights of Bruno Latour and actor network theory to suggest that games and virtual spaces can be interpreted as aesthetic forms which are established and stabilised by a ‘collective’ of humans and technologies. The ‘agents’ that comprise any collective or network – whether it be a simple human-tool relation or a far more complex assemblage of actors in massiv...