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TL;DR: However, I just can’t bring myself to throw away the very old handwritten glossaries from the pre-laptop days, so if I were offered such a meeting I would remember that I have a glossary somewhere in that big loose-leaf binder called 'miscellaneous'.
Abstract: However, I just can’t bring myself to throw away the very old handwritten glossaries from the pre-laptop days when I didn't bother to type them simply didn't have time with small children to care for or they dealt with one-off subjects so varied in nature that I can’t classify them in any way other than ‘miscellaneous’. Who knows, I might just get a second meeting on cork trees, water filters or cross-stitching! It seems to me that if I were offered such a meeting I would remember that I have a glossary somewhere in that big loose-leaf binder called 'miscellaneous'.
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TL;DR: Reviewing the relevance of standards and standardization in diverse theoretical traditions and sociological subfields, it is called for careful empirical analysis of the specific and unintended consequences of different sorts of standards operating in distinct social domains.
Abstract: Standards and standardization aim to render the world equivalent across cultures, time, and geography. Standards are ubiquitous but underappreciated tools for regulating and organizing social life in modernity, and they lurk in the background of many sociological works. Reviewing the relevance of standards and standardization in diverse theoretical traditions and sociological subfields, we point to the emergence and institutionalization of standards, the difficulties of making standards work, resistance to standardization, and the multiple outcomes of standards. Rather than associating standardization with totalizing narratives of globalization or dehumanization, we call for careful empirical analysis of the specific and unintended consequences of different sorts of standards operating in distinct social domains.
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TL;DR: A design theory that tackles dynamic complexity in the design for Information Infrastructures (IIs) defined as a shared, open, heterogeneous and evolving socio-technical system of Information Technology (IT) capabilities is proposed.
Abstract: Increased processing power and higher transmission and storage capacity have made it possible to build increasingly integrated and versatile Information Technology (IT) solutions whose complexity has grown dramatically (BCS/RAE, 2004; Hanseth and Ciborra, 2007; Kallinikos, 2007) Complexity can be defined here as the dramatic increase in the number and heterogeneity of included components, relations, and their dynamic and unexpected interactions in IT solutions Unfortunately, software engineering principles and design methodologies have not scaled up creating a demand for new approaches to better cope with this increased complexity (BCS/RAE, 2004) The growth in complexity has brought to researchers’ attention novel mechanisms to cope with it like architectures, modularity or standards (Parnas, 1972; Schmidt and Werle, 1998; Baldwin and Clark, 2000) Another, more recent stream of research has adopted a more holistic, socio-technical and evolutionary approach putting the growth in the combined social and technical complexity at the center of an empirical scrutiny (see, eg, Edwards et al, 2007) These scholars view these complex systems as new types of IT artifacts and denote them with a generic label of Information Infrastructures (IIs) So far, empirical studies have garnered significant insights into the evolution of IIs of varying scale, functionality and scope including Internet (Abbate, 1999; Tuomi, 2002), electronic market places and EDI networks (Damsgaard and Lyytinen, 2001; Wigand et al, 2006), wireless service infrastructures (Funk, 2002; Yoo et al, 2005) or ERP systems (Ciborra et al, 2000)
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors established a foundation for shared understanding, integration, and trust in virtual teams, and proposed a framework for virtual teams to share knowledge and knowledge sharing among themselves.
Abstract: Part 1: Establishing the Foundation: Shared Understanding, Integration, & Trust.Introduction: Establishing the Foundation: Shared Understanding, Integration, & Trust (Susan G. Cohen and Cristina B. Gibson).Chapter 1: In the Beginning: Introduction and Framework (Susan G. Cohen and Cristina B. Gibson).Chapter 2: Knowledge Sharing And Shared Understanding In Virtual Teams (Pamela Hinds and Suzanne Weisband).Chapter 3: Managing The Global New Product Development Network: A Sensemaking Perspective (Susan Albers Mohrman, Janice A. Klein, and David Finegold).Chapter 4: Building Trust: Effective Multi-Cultural Communication Processes in Virtual Teams (Cristina B. Gibson and Jennifer A. Manuel).Summary: Establishing the Foundation (Susan G. Cohen and Cristina B. Gibson).Part 2: The Raw Materials: People and Context.Introduction: The Raw Materials: People and Context (Cristina B. Gibson and Susan G. Cohen).Chapter 5: Building a Winning Virtual Team: KSAs, Selection, Training, and Evaluation (Richard Blackburn, Stacie Furst, and Benson Rosen).Chapter 6: Pay Systems for Virtual Teams (Edward E. Lawler III).Chapter 7: Meeting the Performance Challenge: Calculating ROI for Virtual Teams (Alec R. Levenson and Susan G. Cohen).Summary: The Raw Materials (Cristina B. Gibson and Susan G. Cohen).Part 3: Constructing the Design: Leadership, Knowledge Management and Information Sharing.Introduction: Constructing the Design: Leadership, Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (Susan G. Cohen and Cristina B. Gibson).Chapter 8: Exploring Emerging Leadership in Virtual Teams (Kristi Lewis Tyran, Craig K. Tyran, and Morgan Shepherd).Chapter 9: Designing the Knowledge-Management Infrastructure for Virtual Teams: Building and Using Social Networks and Social Capital (Martha L. Maznevski and Nicholas A. Athanassiou).Chapter 10: Overcoming Barriers to Information Sharing in Virtual Teams (Catherine Durnell Cramton and Kara L. Orvis).Summary: Constructing the Design (Susan G. Cohen and Cristina B. Gibson).Part 4: Wiring that Connects: Implementing Information Technology.Introduction: Wiring that Connects: Implementing Information Technology (Susan G. Cohen and Cristina B. Gibson).Chapter 11: Context, Task and the Evolution of Technology Use in Global Virtual Teams (Kenneth Riopelle, Julia Gluesing, Tara Alcordo, Marietta Baba, David Britt, Willie McKether, Leslie Monplaisir, Hilary Ratner, and Kimberly Harris Wagner).Chapter 12: Technology Alignment and Adaptation for Virtual Teams Involved in Unstructured Knowledge Work (Nelson King and Ann Majchrzak).Chapter 13: Team or Community of Practice Aligning Tasks, Structures and Technologies (Arjan Raven).Summary: Wiring that Connects (Susan G. Cohen and Cristina B. Gibson).Part 5: It's All About Action: Processes and Development.Introduction: It's All About Action: Processes and Development (Cristina B. Gibson and Susan G. Cohen).Chapter 14: Influence and Political Processes in Virtual Teams (Efrat Elron and Eran Vigoda).Chapter 15: Conflict and Virtual Teams (Terri L. Griffith, Elizabeth A. Mannix, and Margaret A. Neale).Chapter 16: The Development of Global Virtual Teams (Julia Gluesing, Tara Alcordo, Marietta Baba, David Britt, Kimberly Harris Wagner, Willie McKether, Leslie Monplaisir, Hilary Ratner, and Kenneth Riopelle).Chapter 17: Closing the Time Gap in Virtual Teams (Janice A. Klein & Astrid Kleinhanns).Summary: It's All About Action (Cristina B. Gibson and Susan G. Cohen).Chapter 18: The Last Word: Conclusions and Implications (Cristina B. Gibson and Susan G. Cohen).
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TL;DR: The authors argue that human dynamics in public space are centrally influenced by the entanglement and circulation of human and non-human bodies and matter in general, productive of a material culture that forms a kind of pre-cognitive template for civic and political behaviour.
Abstract: This paper develops a post‐humanist account of urban public space. It breaks with a long tradition that has located the culture and politics of public spaces such as streets and parks or libraries and town halls in the quality of inter‐personal relations in such spaces. Instead, it argues that human dynamics in public space are centrally influenced by the entanglement and circulation of human and non‐human bodies and matter in general, productive of a material culture that forms a kind of pre‐cognitive template for civic and political behaviour. The paper explores the idea of ‘situated surplus’, manifest in varying dimensions of compliance, as the force that produces a distinctive sense of urban collective culture and civic affirmation in urban life.
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