One important aspect of ANT is the denial of an a priori dichotomy between the social and
the technical; they are considered to be intertwined. ANT argues for avoiding both technological
determinism and social reductionism and states that there is no reason to assume
that either objects or people in general determine the character of social change or stability
( Law, 1992 ). For example, when driving a car we are influenced not only by the technical
capabilities of the car, but also by traffic regulations and previous driving experience
( Monteiro, 2000 ). If we want to understand the driving behaviour, we should take all of
these into account where none of the elements is beforehand more influential than the others.
As such, ANT supports analytically treating objects and people the same; non-humans and
humans together form the heterogeneous networks. This view proves to be crucial to the
aim of developing a deeper understanding of the use of an IT evaluation method that can
be regarded as actor in an organisational actor-network. After presenting the case study, the
authors will come back to this in the analysis.