EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This case concerns the implementation of a workflow-management application at a large, publicly listed, German media company. The system collects information-rich business-process documents, stores them in an organizational memory system, distributes organizational knowledge, and ultimately informates staff and management in various business situations. The implementation was ...

Joint application development (JAD) techniques improve the quality of applications and the efficiency of the development process. Yet the facilitated group approach that forms the basis of JAD methodology is also useful for empowering employees and managing group work across a broad range of organizational decision–making and systems development tasks. Viewing JAD within this broader context al...

In this study, we explore the supporting role of group support systems (GSS) in organizational workgroups that involve groups of distinct social identities. Intergroup processes become relevant and prevalent in such workgroups and trigger new issues. Anonymity is an important feature of GSS concerning the social influence in such intergroup setting whereby it not only shields individual partici...

Abstract This study explores a liberatory epistemic virtue that is suitable for good learning as form of liberating socially situated agents toward ideal virtuousness. First, I demonstrate the weak neutralization epistemically bad stereotypes an end learning. Second, argue represents virtue, value which derives from us learners blindness to freedom. Third, explicate two distinct forms transform...