Interviews with both refugees and organizational staff in two nonprofit refugee resettlement organizations in the United States reveal the ways in which knowledge(s) and expertise are crafted, threatened, and understood in refugee organizations. Refugee-participants described the need for knowledgeable communication, barriers to the communication of knowledge, and processes of negotiating whose...

I will argue that employees’ collective capacity to create organizational transformations and innovations is becoming a crucially important asset that gives a new, dynamic content to notions of social and collaborative capital. In philosophy, sociology, anthropology and cognitive science, such capacity is conceptualized as distributed agency or collective intentionality (e.g., Barnes, 2000, Meg...

It has been demonstrated that a complex division of labor provides for the diversity of knowledge that is critical for organizational innovation and productivity [Hage, J., 1999. Organizational innovation and organizational change. Annual Review of Sociology 25, 597–622]. This article examines the impact of complexity in an R&D setting and adopts the approach that collaborative research involve...

This paper applies the method of “phenomenology” to a comprehensive study of information and communications technology (ICT) deployment at one of the largest government sector banks in India. The efficacy of the phenomenological approach for academic investigation of global ICT issues is argued in this paper. The study finds that the emerging architecture of ICT strategy in this corporation con...

Jennifer B. McCormick,1,* Jason Owen-Smith,2 and Christopher Thomas Scott3,* 1Division of General Internal Medicine, Program in Professionalism and Bioethics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA 2Department of Sociology and Organizational Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382, USA 3Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Program in Stem Cells and Society, Stanford U...

Nowadays, organizations are experiencing revolutionary change due to the advent of Enterprise 2.0 or enterprise usage of social networking tools. Practitioners and researchers are in their early stages experimenting with social media in organizational contexts. The central concern is how the enterprise usage of social media could be converted into the improved organizational performance. Organi...

THETOPIC OF GENDER DIFFERENCES in leadership style has been of great interest to researchers in the fields of psychology, management, and sociology, especially in recent years, as women have begun to assume more leadership positions. This article presents an overview of the research on gender differences in leadership, examines the impact of sex stereotyping, looks at the organizational effects...

Concern that high levels of pluralism within IS have frustrated the development of a strong identity are evident in the literature. Rather than proposing an identity for IS, this paper uses theory and research from occupational sociology and the sociology of professions to analyze the processes involved in establishing boundaries for the field, for defining errors of inclusion and exclusion, an...