Styhre, A. (2010). The concept of transduction and its use in organization studies. Emergence: Complexity & Organization, 12(3), 115–131.
Not read: only the abstract was reached (see the status note).
Why this is here
The owner asked for the works Bencherki, Brummans & Vézy (2024, LIT-1902) lean on. The parent (p. 1356) quotes Styhre twice to define transduction, which “Simondon refers to … as communication or transduction”:
- p. 125: “a concept introduced to explore the individuation of an organism, a technology, … a social system or a social formation such as an organization”.
- p. 120: “[t]ransduction is potentially useful in organization analysis because it focuses on the folding of different forces and elements together in the individuating of individuals, collectives and entities”.
Neither quotation could be checked. Both agree with the abstract’s “heterogeneous resources are brought together and temporarily stabilized into functional units”. The parent also lists Styhre among those who theorize constitution “without theorizing the vital role of agency” (pp. 1354–1355). The abstract’s subjects, Schatzki’s site of the social and Czarniawska’s action nets, are frameworks of action, so that characterization needs the full text to judge. Bencherki (LIT-1901, p. 782) cites Styhre for transduction as propagation from “kin to kin”.