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Table I

Core components of translational mobilization theory

Core component	Definition	Subcomponent	Definition
Project	An institutionally sanctioned socio-material network of time-bounded collective action which follows a trajectory in time and space	Primary project	The focus of collective action
		Sub-project	A discrete component of collective action within a primary project
		Project actor	Discrete social or material element within a project of action
		Intersecting project	Project of action that may affect or be affected by the primary project
		Line of work	Recurrent activity that feed into multiple projects – such as the work of the X-ray department, the flow of patients through a department or hospital ward, or the caseload of an individual healthcare professional
Strategic action field	The institutional context in which projects emerge and are progressed and which provide the normative and relational frame for collective action	Organizing logics	Elements of a strategic action field that provide a set of normative conventions that define the purpose and scope of possible action
		Structures	Elements of a strategic action field that differentiate social actors (divisions of labor, social worlds, hierarchies, departments, units, teams, interfaces)
		Materials/technologies	Elements of a strategic action field that provide agents with the materials and technologies to support their practice.
		Interpretative repertoires	Elements of a strategic action field that provide agents with a set of cognitive artifacts and relational resources for interpreting and making sense of the objects of practice (classifications, scripts, categories, discourses)
Mechanisms of mobilization and institutionalization	Processes through which agents operating within a strategic action field mobilize projects, drive action and enact institutions	Object formation	Practices that configure the objects of knowledge and practice and enroll them into a network of collective action
		Reflexive monitoring	Practices through which actors evaluate a field of action to generate awareness of project trajectories
		Articulation work	Practices that assemble and align the diverse elements (people, knowledge, materials, technologies, bodies) through which object trajectories and projects of collective action are mobilized Temporal articulation aims to ensure that things happen at the right time and in the right order (Bardram, 2000). Material articulation attends to the availability of resources and materials to support activity (Allen, 2015). Integrative articulation focuses on the coherence of project work (Allen, 2015)
		Translation	Practices that enable practice objects to be shared and differing viewpoints, local contingencies, and multiple interests to be accommodated in order to enable concerted action
		Sensemaking	Practices though which actors order, construct, and mobilize projects and enact structures and institutions

Core component	Definition	Subcomponent	Definition
Project	An institutionally sanctioned socio-material network of time-bounded collective action which follows a trajectory in time and space	Primary project	The focus of collective action
		Sub-project	A discrete component of collective action within a primary project
		Project actor	Discrete social or material element within a project of action
		Intersecting project	Project of action that may affect or be affected by the primary project
		Line of work	Recurrent activity that feed into multiple projects – such as the work of the X-ray department, the flow of patients through a department or hospital ward, or the caseload of an individual healthcare professional
Strategic action field	The institutional context in which projects emerge and are progressed and which provide the normative and relational frame for collective action	Organizing logics	Elements of a strategic action field that provide a set of normative conventions that define the purpose and scope of possible action
		Structures	Elements of a strategic action field that differentiate social actors (divisions of labor, social worlds, hierarchies, departments, units, teams, interfaces)
		Materials/technologies	Elements of a strategic action field that provide agents with the materials and technologies to support their practice.
		Interpretative repertoires	Elements of a strategic action field that provide agents with a set of cognitive artifacts and relational resources for interpreting and making sense of the objects of practice (classifications, scripts, categories, discourses)
Mechanisms of mobilization and institutionalization	Processes through which agents operating within a strategic action field mobilize projects, drive action and enact institutions	Object formation	Practices that configure the objects of knowledge and practice and enroll them into a network of collective action
		Reflexive monitoring	Practices through which actors evaluate a field of action to generate awareness of project trajectories
		Articulation work	Practices that assemble and align the diverse elements (people, knowledge, materials, technologies, bodies) through which object trajectories and projects of collective action are mobilized Temporal articulation aims to ensure that things happen at the right time and in the right order (Bardram, 2000). Material articulation attends to the availability of resources and materials to support activity (Allen, 2015). Integrative articulation focuses on the coherence of project work (Allen, 2015)
		Translation	Practices that enable practice objects to be shared and differing viewpoints, local contingencies, and multiple interests to be accommodated in order to enable concerted action
		Sensemaking	Practices though which actors order, construct, and mobilize projects and enact structures and institutions

Source: Developed from Allen and May (2017)