Suchman, L. (2000) Organising alignment:a case of bridge-building. Organization, 7 (2). pp. 311-327. ISSN 1350-5084
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The project of building a bridge is a canonical example of what John Law (1987) has termed `heterogeneous engineering', involving the arrangement of human and nonhuman elements into a stable artifact. This paper reports ethnographic research on the work of civil engineers engaged in designing a bridge scheduled for completion by the year 2004. My emphasis is on a view of bridge-building as persuasive performances that both rely upon and reflexively constitute the elements to be aligned. The work of designing a bridge, on this view, is as much a matter of story-telling as of analysis, calculation, and work with concrete and steel.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Organization |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | heterogeneous engineering ; ordering ; organizational ethnography ; performance ; planning |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Sociology |
| ID Code: | 19181 |
| Deposited By: | Mrs Yaling Zhang |
| Deposited On: | 28 Oct 2008 16:03 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 15:26 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/19181 |
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