Editorial: Special Issue on digitalization and the actor’s perspective, VIII Actor Reality Construction Conference

Abstract

About this issue This issue of Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism contains abstracts from the VIII Actor Reality Construction conference held from 24 October to 26 October 2018 at Scuola Superiore Sant‘Anna, Pisa, Italy. The conference was altogether very successful as it presented advancements in Pragmatic Constructivism, and it also connected studies on Pragmatic Constructivism to timely technological developments such as digitalization. The abstracts selected to this issue give indications of topics that that are currently being studied using Pragmatic Constructivism as an analytical framework. As such we are happy share these very early research contributions. Some of these streams of research as well as other contributions under discussion within the Pragmatic Constructivism community will yield full paper publications within this journal in upcoming issues. At the conference, as a practically relevant outcome, formal working groups among the participants of the conference were formed. Five groups will be working actively on the following themes: Costing & Management Accounting, Values, Language games, Methodology, and Learning. We are looking forward to follow the work from these groups and hopefully be able to publish some of their works through this journal. The rest of the editorial is organized in the following way. We focus on digitalization as a theme that relates to many interesting research topics of the Pragmatic Constructivism research community. Furthermore, we elaborate on the actor’s perspective in the digital era to specify some topics for further research. Finally, we present some conclusions on the conference discussions and avenues for further research in the Proceeding of Pragmatic Constructivism (and elsewhere).