Conflicts of jurisdiction: An exploratory study of academic, professional, and epistemological norms in library and information science
Journal Article
Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2009)
Conflicts of jurisdiction: An exploratory study of academic, professional, and epistemological norms in library and information science. Libri, 46, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1515/libr.1996.46.1.1
Library and information science (LIS) faculty, like their peers in other professional schools, are subject to the demands of at times conflicting jurisdictions: research produ...
Managing social capital.
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Snyder, H. (2006)
Managing social capital. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 39, 515-550. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440390119
Understanding sociotechnical action: an introduction to the special issue.
Journal Article
Horton, K., Davenport, E., & Wood-Harper, T. (2004)
Understanding sociotechnical action: an introduction to the special issue. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 1, 1-6
No abstract available. Item is Editorial preface to special issue.
Exploring sociotechnical interaction with Rob Kling: five “big” ideas
Journal Article
Wood‐Harper, T., Horton, K., Davenport, E., & Wood-Harper, T. (2005)
Exploring sociotechnical interaction with Rob Kling: five “big” ideas. Information Technology and People, 18(1), 50-67. https://doi.org/10.1108/09593840510584621
Purpose – To provide a view of Rob Kling’s contribution to socio-technical studies of work.
Design/methodology/approach – The five “big ideas” discussed are signature themes i...
Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues.
Journal Article
Davenport, E., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Taylor, K. (2005)
Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 40, 101-108. doi:10.1002/meet.1450400113
‘Classic’ accounts of social capital have emerged
in accounts of stable networks or institutional
environments. These conditions do not apply in
the case of many firms – a cas...
Mundane knowledge management and microlevel organizational learning: an ethological approach.
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2002)
Mundane knowledge management and microlevel organizational learning: an ethological approach. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 53, 1038-1046. doi:10.1002/asi.10110. ISSN 1532-2882
Knowledge management is discussed in the context of articulation work, that is routine interactions in groups of local practice. In such situations, knowledge is largely acqui...
Organizational knowledge and communities of practice
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Hall, H. (2002)
Organizational knowledge and communities of practice. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36(1), 170-227. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440360105
No abstract available for this article.
Internet simulations for teaching, learning and research: an investigation of e-commerce interactions and practice in the Virtual Economy.
Journal Article
Horton, K., Davenport, E., Hall, H., & Rosenbaum, H. (2002)
Internet simulations for teaching, learning and research: an investigation of e-commerce interactions and practice in the Virtual Economy. Education for Information, 20(3/4), 237-252
In this paper we report upon the Virtual Economy (VE), an Internet simulation which operated for the first time in Spring 2000 involving students at Indiana University, USA an...
Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (2001)
Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(9), 770-773. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.1123
Multiple authorship is a topic of growing concern in a number of scientific domains. When, as is increasingly common, scholarly articles and clinical reports have scores or ev...
Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2001)
Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework. Journal of Documentation, 57(1), (61-75). ISSN 0022-0418
Communities of practice have been identified as sites where knowledge is created in organisations. The author reviews studies of situated learning and situated action and sugg...