This paper presents a study of a successful organizing process, namely the knotting together of different types of action by "translating" them into one another. The connections thus established were then stabilized to form a unit that can be designated as an "action net". This instance of...

"In this timely book, Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges examine the hopes and fears around work and job security inspired by automation, from the original coining of the term 'robot' to the present day media fascination. Have these hopes and fears changed or do they remain the same? This...