IT governance, like global governance of projects, requires cooperation between several actors. In general, such cooperation builds a collaboration network between entities. Many works in the literature interested in collaboration network, but no one of them were focused directly on how to build a network in an IT governance perspective. In this paper, we investigate how game theory can be expl...

In this chapter, we begin with a confession. This work is derived from our existing publications over a twenty year period on Foucault’s notion of confession and its enactments within the education of adults (Edwards and Usher 1995, Usher and Edwards 1998, 2004, 2007). In this chapter, we draw selectively upon Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to enhance and extend our use of Foucault’s later work to ...

Actor-network theory (ANT) has established itself as a valuable resource for the analysis of technology innovation and adoption. One of the main reasons for the success of the Innovation Translation Model (a specific instantiation of ANT) is the fact that it fits very well the emerging dominance of ecosystem or multiple stakeholder perspectives on technology development and technology adoption....

The real challenge of business environment is derived from a situation where organizations need to find opportunities on how to introduce ideas and new products to market that provide future earnings stream. Management accounting is used as a tool in this process and provides information on opportunities and threats. The purpose of this research is to explain the role of management accounting i...

Using actor-network theory (ANT), this paper explores the process and mechanisms of rural space reconstruction in China post-urbanization era. In context urban–rural integration development China, villages have become diversified. They are not only living spaces villagers, but they also consumption urban residents. Through a case study typical village Yangtze River Delta, highlights that spatia...

The basic argument presented in the paper is that actor network theory has often been forced to adopt the ontology of interpretivism and thus suppress its own ontology. Interpretivism is socio-constructivist in nature but ANT is not. Therein lies the gap, a gap that is traversed by using an assumed flexibility of ANT which thus allows it to be used as a lens within the interpretivist ontology. ...

Many organizations resort to software deployment with the intention to simplify their daily activities, and for competitive advantage. The deployment consists of two main phases, development and implementation. Unfortunately, software doesn’t always fulfil the organization’s intentions. This is attributed to numerous factors, some of complex nature, which happen among humans, non-humans, and be...