The Configuration Of Actors In Market Practice

Andersson, PerStockholm School of Economics,Handelshögskolan i Stockholm (author)

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This paper addresses three conceptual challenges concerning actors and agency that arise when taking interest in market practice: i) how agency is awarded in practical situations, ii) how actors are preconfigured, and iii) how actors are represented. These issues are explored in three empirical scenes taken from a case study of the introduction of an e-procurement system at an international transport and logistics company. First, we suggest that practical interaction can be fruitfully regarded as a process of interdefinition involving prescriptions and subscriptions between acting entities, or actants . Second, we employ the term inscription to address efforts to affect in advance the configuration of such actants. Third, we suggest that actors are entities to which actions are ascribed, ex post . Through this secondary process a number of actants may be subsumed under a common actor label, thus offering a way of accounting for agency as part of a practice perspective. We conclude by discussing implications of the proposed vocabulary for multiplicity, reflexivity and market agency.

Kjellberg, HansStockholm School of Economics,Handelshögskolan i Stockholm(Swepub:hhs)222@hhs.se (author)
Aspenberg, KStockholm School of Economics,Handelshögskolan i Stockholm (author)
Handelshögskolan i StockholmStockholm School of Economics (creator_code:org_t)

In:Marketing Theory: SAGE Publications (UK and US)8:1, s. 67-901741-301X1470-5931

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