Upon the use of mobile computing technologies, organizations will realize expected benefits and encounter unintended consequences. This paper focuses on the potential impact of the use of mobile computing technologies on organizational controls. Drawing on the notion of disciplinary power, we argue that mobile computing devices can potentially act as a constant “invisible gaze” on the users. Un...

Organization concepts and models are increasingly being adopted for the design and specification of multi-agent systems. Just like agents, organizations should also be able to adapt themselves to changing environments. In order to develop a theory on how this reorganization should be performed we need a theoretical framework in which both organizational performance as well as the reorganization...

Reflecting recent discussions on the psychiatric nursing mailbase, a selective overview of the psychiatric nursing literature reveals familiar ways of conceptualizing power. These include the subordinate role of nurses to medical decision making, and the ability of psychiatric nurses to empower otherwise disempowered patients (Barker 1999, Clarke 1999). Abuses of power are also described, such ...

Facilitating communities of practice for knowledge sharing and application is a goal pursued by knowledge managers, intraorganizational or inter-organizational. One major short-coming in the CoP literature is the lack of attention paid to power relations. The term communities of practice (CoPs) invoke the notion of peers sharing knowledge as equals. In actual practice, power relations within a ...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to propose a model knowledge legitimation in organizational learning focusing on the relationship between power politics and legitimacy. Design/methodology/approach This adopts approach conceptual discussion. Findings developed an that explains how actors exercise their legitimated through politics. author identified various factors shape politics; these tri...

In this experiment, we study the scale free network property of an organizational communication network. We used social network analysis methods during organizational crisis period that captures the dynamics of communication networks. We did not find any significant fluctuation between the actor prominence in daily and aggregated networks. We found that email communication network displays a hi...

With most organizations spending at least one third of their income on purchasing goods and services, procurement holds significant, but often overlooked, business value. Purchasing processes are frequently very inefficient with communication primarily occurring on paper and workflow routines being complex, timeconsuming, and expensive. Additionally, companies only rarely fully leverage their b...