Negotiating Organizational Constraints: Tactics for Technical Communicators

A Framework for Organizational Compliance Management Tactics

Organizational compliance with laws, industrial standards, procedures and enterprise architectures has become a highly relevant topic for both practitioners and academics. However, both the fundamental insights into compliance as a concept and the tactics for bringing an organization into a compliant state have been described in a fragmented manner. Using literature from various disciplines, th...

Ecological Constraints on Mating Tactics

Mating tactics do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, they develop within specific environmental contexts. Such contextual influences can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles around the individual, as in Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological model of behavioral development, that are hierarchically nested within each other like a set of Russian dolls. Bronfenbrenner placed behavioral deve...

Negotiating Domain Ontologies in Distributed Organizational Memories

Organizational Memory Information Systems (OMIS) have a strong need to represent shared understanding of various actors in the information landscape. Ontologies are widely seen as an adequate means for this purpose. In the FRODO project we develop an agent-based framework for Distributed Organizational Memories, and one important type of agent in the framework are agents responsible for managin...

Negotiating Privacy Constraints in Online Social Networks

Privacy is a major concern of Web systems. Traditional Web systems employ static privacy agreements to notify its users of how their information will be used. Recent social networks allow users to specify some privacy concerns, thus providing a partially personalized privacy setting. However, still privacy violations are taking place because of different privacy concerns, based on context, audi...

Organizational socialization tactics: Determining the relative impact of context, content, and social tactics