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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Agency
verfasst von : Thomas Kaiserfeld
Erschienen in: Beyond Innovation: Technology, Institution and Change as Categories for Social Analysis
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Actors such as individuals or organizations are extremely important for our understanding of how knowledge and skills are converted into institutional and technological change. In some theoretical frameworks, agency is stressed as an important feature while others highlight structures of knowledge rather than individuals. Innovation studies contain both perspectives, but have traditionally cherished the will of the entrepreneur as one of the cornerstones for the understanding of change. The concepts reviewed here supply some alternative understanding of agency in the context of institution, technology and change. They range from constructivist perspectives to actor-network theory.