Little research effort has been put forward to understand the advances in Information Technology (IT) as a social phenomenon, influenced by organizational changes. Consequently, a clear answer has not yet been found about which organizational and information system variables relate with each other and most importantly why that relationship occurs. This research is an attempt to fill in the blan...

This paper proposes a paradigm for managing the dynamic aspects of organizational knowledge creating processes. Its central theme is that organizational knowledge is created through a continuous dialogue between tacit and explicit knowledge. The nature of this dialogue is examined and four patterns of interaction involving tacit and explicit knowledge are identified. It is argued that while new...

This research examines an entertainment website, Jezebel.com, to understand how the site’s use of a virtual newsroom and computer-mediated communication influences organizational dynamics and culture. By employing a case study of Jezebel, this research utilized in-depth interviews and observations to examine the role of instant messaging (IM) in organizing work and shaping organizational cultur...

One of the important problems in organizational memories is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in an organizational memory, and the right information is also a prerequisite for maximizing the uptake and relevance of the memory content. To tackle this problem, most developers adopt heavy-weight solutions and rely on a faithful continuous interaction ...

The present study proposed and found that personal values and organizational identification interact in predicting making suggestions for organizational improvements at work. 148 employees of children's day-care centres rated their values, their identification with the organization, and their suggestionmaking behaviour. Their behaviour was also rated by their supervisors. As expected, the value...

Massagli oversaw the collection and initial analysis of the survey data. Harvey Brooks, Lewis Branscomb, and Michelle Gittleman provided helpful comments. 2 ABSTRAC T The reasons why profit-seeking enterprises undertake to "do" science have captured the attention of sociologists, organizational theorists, and economists. This article argues that scientific research organizations arrange themsel...

This paper investigated the organizational changes that were unfolded during the implementation of an OSS-based IS in the public sector of a developing country (DC) context and the ramifications of aspects of OSS and contextual matters on the process and its outcome. To do so, the study draws upon IS literature that views technological change as an emergent property of the complex interaction b...

Nonaka’s paper [1994. A dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation. Organ. Sci. 5(1) 14–37] contributed to the concepts of “tacit knowledge” and “knowledge conversion” in organization science. We present work that shaped the development of organizational knowledge creation theory and identify two premises upon which more than 15 years of extensive academic work has been conducted: (1) ...