Knowledge networking in a public service agency: contextual challenges and infrastructure issues.
Book
Davenport, E., & Rasmussen, L. (2007)
Knowledge networking in a public service agency: contextual challenges and infrastructure issues. In T. K. Srikantaiah, & M. Koenig (Eds.), Knowledge Management in Practice: Connections and Context, 445-462. Information Today, Inc
The chapter presents a study of knowledge networking in a public sector agency (PuSA) in the UK, where a number of knowledge management initiatives have been introduced since ...
Women’s studies: bibliometric and content analysis of the formative years
Journal Article
Cronin, B., Davenport, E., & Martinson, A. (1997)
Women’s studies: bibliometric and content analysis of the formative years. Journal of Documentation, 53(2), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000007196
Women‘s studies has emerged as a recognised academic specialty in recent years. We explored the social structure of the field by analysing bibliometrically all scholarly artic...
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...
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
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Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry.
Journal Article
Davenport, E., Higgins, M., & Somerville, I. (2000)
Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51, 900-912. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571%282000%2951%3A103.0.CO%3B2-U
The authors describe a study of the social dynamics of new media in Scottish households. The evolving project drew on dialogues with multiple household members elicited in gro...
E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy
Journal Article
Davenport, B. C. E., Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2000)
E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy. Information Society, 17(1), 33-48. doi:10.1080/019722401750067414
Electronic commerce offers immense opportunities to the producers of pornographic products and services. Although this sector generates significant revenues, it is almost invi...
What does it really cost? allocating indirect costs.
Journal Article
Snyder, H., & Davenport, E. (1997)
What does it really cost? allocating indirect costs. Bottom Line, 10(4), 158-164. https://doi.org/10.1108/08880459710183035
Better managerial control in terms of decision making and understanding the total costs of a system or service result from allocating indirect costs. Allocation requires a thr...
Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions
Conference Proceeding
Marsh, S., Davenport, E., Dibben, M., Friedman, B., March, S., Rosenbaum, H., & Thimbleby, H. (2000)
Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions. In CHI 2000 Proceedings (239-240). https://doi.org/10.1145/633292.633432
How might trust be a component of human-computer based interaction? There are a number of dimensions involving different combinations of humans, systems and computer agents. R...
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...
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...