Using Actor Network Theory in the design stage can help in understanding the dynamism of the network

Lesson

ID	39
Has statement	Using Actor Network Theory in the design stage can help in understanding the dynamism of the network
Has evidence	Having started from a DSS that doesn’t exist yet and from an unstructured decision problem we are now tracing connections in real time.
Has consequences	Studying an ongoing process avoids backwards tracing and thus facilitates the analyst.
Has recommendation for action	Start to trace relations and to follow the actors (both humans and technology) from the design phase of the whole process.
Has domain	Participation
Has DSS development stage	Specification
Has decision stage	organization
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context	Spatial with neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Forest level, Regional/national level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has goods and services dimension	Market services, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has country	Germany
Has reference	See case
Has related DSS
Has related case	Germany-Actor Network Theory to Understand Collaborative Decision Support Systems Development in Forest Management Practice
Has related lesson	Visualization of the preliminary actor network made the people explicity include the DSS in a planning process.
Has other relevant information	See case
Has working group theme	Dss development process, Participation
Has DSS development	Using Actor Network Theory in the design stage can help in understanding the dynamism of the network.Description of DSS development
Has decision support techniques	Using Actor Network Theory in the design stage can help in understanding the dynamism of the network.Decision support techniques
Has knowledge management processes	Using Actor Network Theory in the design stage can help in understanding the dynamism of the network.Knowledge management process
Has support for social participation	Using Actor Network Theory in the design stage can help in understanding the dynamism of the network.Support of social participation
Has actor perspective	Developer/Architect, Researcher
Has researcher role	Decision analyst
Has user role
Has developer role

• has related Lesson:Actor Network Theory provides a suitable lens for exploring both technical and human aspects of DSS institutionalization in the forestry domain

WG1: Participation

WG4: Institutionalization