2024 Volume 23 Issue 2 Pages 41-56
This paper examines Chapter 6, “The Role of Artifacts in Establishing Connectivity Within Professional Routines” in Howard-Grenville et al., (2016). Chapter 6 focuses on professional routines and suggests that actors and artifacts are not independent entities, but that routines are composed in an inseparable relationship. This framework suggests that actors and artifacts, in their entanglement, are the basis for the connectivity of “profession,” “individual work,” and “collective work” in professional routines. This paper presents an overview of Chapter 6, reaffirms the definition of professional, and discusses possible developments from Jarzabkowski, Bednarek, and Spee.
