The Resource Bind: System Failure and Legitimacy Threats in Sociotechnical Organizations
This paper decouples legitimacy crises from technical failure, observing what happens when sociotechnical organizations confront a legitimacy crisis that does not stem from a technical failure. We draw on two parallel ethnographic studies within U.S. governmental agencies which administer complex so...
Main Authors: | Janet A. Vertesi, danah boyd |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2024-03-01
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Series: | Sociologica |
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Online Access: | https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/18894 |
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