craft realities” (Law, 2004, p. 151) we present the present study as a possible
interpretation of decision making.
One of the difficulties we faced – well known to all who has attended meetings – is
that the demarcation of shift from one issue on the agenda to the next is seldom clear.
In the analysis the measurement of duration included triangulating the general agenda
with the tracked debate, observations and notes, and data (from full transcripts and
listening to the recordings), identifying breaks in the discussions, and tracking the
project titles referred to in the content of the discussion. Furthermore we did a control
coding of the transcribed material and then checking the recordings in difficult
passages. The pauses in the discussion at the meetings, often four to five seconds long,
were divided equally between the projects.