IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/ijimxx/v02y1998i02ns1363919698000092.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Construction of a Network Technology: Electronic Livestock Auction Markets

Author

Listed:
  • Ian Graham

    (Department of Business Studies, University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JY, Scotland)

Abstract

This paper uses Callon's actor network theory (ANT) to analyse the emergence of an inter-organisational network innovation: electronic livestock auction systems in the United Kingdom. It is based on a study of the development of these systems by drawing on interviews with developers, operators and users of the competing systems and focusing on the social networks that evolved in their conception and adoption. The validity of ANT as a framework for the analysis of innovation is critically considered. The paper concludes that complexity and barriers to network building led the networks to be constructed from existing components and social linkages, thereby limiting the potential of the innovation to incorporate radical change in the social structure.

Suggested Citation

  • Ian Graham, 1998. "The Construction of a Network Technology: Electronic Livestock Auction Markets," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 2(02), pages 183-199.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:02:y:1998:i:02:n:s1363919698000092
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919698000092
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1363919698000092
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S1363919698000092?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Stephen Dobson, 2015. "Urban translations: Regeneration through the lens of actor-networking," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 30(8), pages 944-960, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:02:y:1998:i:02:n:s1363919698000092. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/ijim/ijim.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.