. As Law and Callon (1988: 284) suggested,
"Engineers are not just people who sit in drawing offices
and design machines, they are also, willy nilly, social
activists." The tertius iungens orientation suggests one form
this social activism might take. The model of innovation
involvement proffered—social networks, the tertius iungens
orientation, and the use of social knowledge—is suggestive
of the mechanics that lead to organizational and institutional
change as well