TY - GEN
T1 - Neither here nor there
T2 - 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07
AU - Griffith, Terri L.
AU - Fuller, Mark A.
AU - Northcraft, Gregory B.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Information technologies hold great promise in their ability to link distributed workers, allowing organizations to take advantage of the potential benefits of effectively gathering knowledge without regard to geographic boundaries. This can be advantageous for an organization's overall capabilities, given that employing workers from diverse backgrounds can increase an organization's knowledge base. Paradoxically, these technologies may also serve to dampen knowledge sharing, unless proactively managed. This paper extends work on Adaptive Structuration Theory and sensemaking to develop the concept of Proactive Structuration. We explain how organizations and teams can proactively manage distributed work arrangements to best position the team to take advantage of knowledge sharing for enhanced performance.
AB - Information technologies hold great promise in their ability to link distributed workers, allowing organizations to take advantage of the potential benefits of effectively gathering knowledge without regard to geographic boundaries. This can be advantageous for an organization's overall capabilities, given that employing workers from diverse backgrounds can increase an organization's knowledge base. Paradoxically, these technologies may also serve to dampen knowledge sharing, unless proactively managed. This paper extends work on Adaptive Structuration Theory and sensemaking to develop the concept of Proactive Structuration. We explain how organizations and teams can proactively manage distributed work arrangements to best position the team to take advantage of knowledge sharing for enhanced performance.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2007.396
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2007.396
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:39749175845
SN - 0769527558
SN - 9780769527550
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07
Y2 - 3 January 2007 through 6 January 2007
ER -