Paul Duguid
Biographic Data
| ID | 194534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Duguid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Duguid |
| SIGNATURE | DUGUID P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7972-1574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 841 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Paul M. Dover
We have become accustomed to the idea that we live in the “information age,” the result of an “information revolution.” Nonetheless, some have argued that every society and age has been centered around information. Dover questions both these standpoints by placing the “information revolution” in Early Modern Europe. Drawing from his admirable research about diplomacy in the Early Modern Era, he examines Europe, not simply for the purpose of compa…
Early marks: American trademarks before US trademark law
Historians identify the process of registration as key to the ‘modern mark’. Hence the introduction of trademark registration with the US federal law of 1870 appears as a pivotal event, endorsing Chandlerean accounts of the modern mark as a product of the ‘Second Industrial Revolution’. Such accounts overlook the earlier registration laws in places where economic conditions challenge claims for an industrial origin to registration. This article l…
The Ageing of Information: From Particular to Particulate
In 1778, Vicesimus Knox declared his time the "Age of Information," suggesting, in a fashion recognizable today, that the period had severed connections with prior ages. This paper examines Knox's claim by exploring changes in conceptions of information across the eighteenth century. It notes in particular shifts in the concept's personal and political implications, reflected in the different ways information is used from Locke at the beginning o…
Information in the Mark and the Marketplace: A Multivocal Account
Trademark theory implicitly assumes that laws favoring the interests of the producer will inevitably serve the interests of the consumer. Such a claim justifies the way that trademark law privileges the voice of the producer in the marketplace. Historical work has tended to endorse this view, explaining the development of trademarks and trademark law in terms of the information needed for consumers in the modern marketplace. Taking both a histori…
A Case of Prejudice? The Uncertain Development of Collective and Certification Marks
The introduction of collective and certification marks to U.S. law in 1946 by the Lanham Act has generally been regarded as an innovative and forward-looking step. Yet these marks had been widely used by individual states since the previous century, and international conventions had long been pushing the federal government to enact measures to protect them. Indeed, it may be stranger that the U.S. trademark law of 1905 did not include protection …
Introduction: Behind the Brand
Once described as “neglected,” brands and brand history have benefited from a recent surge of work in business history, economics, and management studies. This research, however, remains relatively tightly focused. Most attention is given to successful, long-lived brands and to the entrepreneurs who developed them. As in the market, so in research, the attraction of successful brands is understandable. Nevertheless, such a focus only reinforces b…
French Connections: The International Propagation of Trademarks in the Nineteenth Century
The history of modern brands depends to a significant degree on the history of trademark law, but there are reasons to doubt how comprehensive standard versions of the latter history are. Business, economic, and even legal historians tend to accentuate the importance of the Anglo-Saxon common-law tradition and assume that the continental, civil law tradition followed in its wake. Yet the historical sequence of events suggests that almost exactly …
Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books
The Google Books Project has drawn a great deal of attention, offering the prospect of the library of the future and rendering many other library and digitizing projects apparently superfluous. To grasp the value of Google's endeavor, we need among other things, to assess its quality. On such a vast and undocumented project, the task is challenging. In this essay, I attempt an initial assessment in two steps. First, I argue that most quality assu…
Limits of self-organization: "Peer production and "laws of quality
People often implicitly ascribe the quality of peer–production projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia to what I call “laws” of quality. These are drawn from Open Source software development and it is not clear how applicable they are outside the realm of software. I look at examples from peer production projects to ask whether faith in these laws does not so much guarantee quality as hide the need for improvement
Networks and Knowledge: The Beginning and End of the Port Commodity Chain, 1703–1860
Diversified trading networks have recently drawn a great deal of attention. In the process, the importance of diversity has perhaps been overemphasized. Using the trade in port wine from Portugal to Britain as an example, this essay attempts to show how a market once dominated by general, diversified traders was taken over by dedicated specialists whose success might almost be measured by the degree to which they rejected diversification to form …
Introduction: The Changing Organization of Industry
In his seminal 1972 essay on the “organization of industry,”G. B. Richardson argued that economists had generally viewed firms as “islands of planned co-ordination in a sea of market relations.” Business historians, too, had focused predominantly on the firm (or entrepreneur) and the market. In drawing attention when he did to the “dense networks of co-operation and affiliation by which firms are inter-related,” Richardson was on the forefront of…
The Art of Knowing: Social and Tacit Dimensions of Knowledge and the Limits of the Community of Practice
Community of practice theory is inherently a social theory. As such it is distinct from more individualist accounts of human behavior, such as mainstream economics. Consequently, community of practice theory and economics favor different accounts of knowledge. Taking a community of practice perspective, this article challenges economists' attempts to reduce knowledge to information held by individuals and to reject tacit knowledge as mere uncodif…
Developing the Brand: The Case of Alcohol, 1800–1880
Historians generally agree that modern brands arose from the vertically integrated corporations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and were used as competitive weapons between like firms. Looking at the alcoholic beverage trade and drawing on trade press, court reports, newspaper advertising, business records, and accounts of consumer behavior, I suggest that, on the contrary, supply chains made up of small firms played both an …
The social life of legal information: First impressions
The rapid development of digital technologies has given rise to numerous predictions about the future of the library and the university. Many of these predictions assume that both are, in essence, providers of information. The reactions of the law school and the law library to information technology present an interesting challenge to this assumption. The former has strongly resisted change, the latter has been quite transformed. The article sugg…
Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
While the recent focus on knowledge has undoubtedly benefited organizational studies, the literature still presents a sharply contrasting and even contradictory view of knowledge, which at times is described as “sticky” and at other times “leaky.” This paper is written on the premise that there is more than a problem with metaphors at issue here, and more than accounts of different types of knowledge (such as “tacit” and “explicit”) can readily e…
The social life of information - Chapter three: Home alone
The social life of information - Chapter one: Limits to information
The social life of information - Chapter two: Agents and angels
The social life of information - Introduction: Tunneling ahead
Ambiguous company: Institutions and organizations in the port wine trade, 1814–1834 1
Institutional economics turns on some important theoretical dichotomies, in particular those between markets and firms and between institutions and organizations. This paper encourages both economists and historians to consider the middle ground between these extremes. Drawing on a study of the port wine trade at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it notes that both the firms and even the dominant Portuguese institution of the period were r…
Organizing Knowledge
The Social Life of Documents; introduction by Esther Dyson
Documents are evolving as means for structuring and navigating information space, and resources for constructing and negotiating social space
Patrolling the Border: A Reply
(1994). Patrolling the Border: A Reply. Human–Computer Interaction: Vol. 9, Context in Design, pp. 137-149
Borderline Issues: Social and Material Aspects of Design
The shared use of artifacts is, we argue, supported by latent border resources, which lie beyond what is usually recognized as the canonical artifact. These unnoticed resources are developed over time as artifacts are integrated into ongoing practice and stable conventions or genres grow up around them. For a couple of reasons, these resources may now deserve increased attention. First, because they lie outside conventional frames of reference, m…
Coming of Age in Birmingham: Cultural Studies and Conceptions of Subjectivity
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
Many teaching methods implicitly assume that conceptual knowledge is independent of the situations in which it is learned and used.The authors examine one such method and argue that its lack of success is a direct result of this assumption.Drawing on recent research into learning in everyday activity and not just in the highly specialized conditions of schooling, they claim that knowledge is not independent but, rather, fundamentally "situated," …
The Art of Knowing: Social and Tacit Dimensions of Knowledge and the Limits of the Community of Practice
Community of practice theory is inherently a social theory. As such it is distinct from more individualist accounts of human behavior, such as mainstream economics. Consequently, community of practice theory and economics favor different accounts of knowledge. Taking a community of practice perspective, this article challenges economists' attempts to reduce knowledge to information held by individuals and to reject tacit knowledge as mere uncodif…
Developing the Brand: The Case of Alcohol, 1800–1880
Historians generally agree that modern brands arose from the vertically integrated corporations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and were used as competitive weapons between like firms. Looking at the alcoholic beverage trade and drawing on trade press, court reports, newspaper advertising, business records, and accounts of consumer behavior, I suggest that, on the contrary, supply chains made up of small firms played both an …
Networks and Knowledge: The Beginning and End of the Port Commodity Chain, 1703–1860
Diversified trading networks have recently drawn a great deal of attention. In the process, the importance of diversity has perhaps been overemphasized. Using the trade in port wine from Portugal to Britain as an example, this essay attempts to show how a market once dominated by general, diversified traders was taken over by dedicated specialists whose success might almost be measured by the degree to which they rejected diversification to form …
A Case of Prejudice? The Uncertain Development of Collective and Certification Marks
The introduction of collective and certification marks to U.S. law in 1946 by the Lanham Act has generally been regarded as an innovative and forward-looking step. Yet these marks had been widely used by individual states since the previous century, and international conventions had long been pushing the federal government to enact measures to protect them. Indeed, it may be stranger that the U.S. trademark law of 1905 did not include protection …
French Connections: The International Propagation of Trademarks in the Nineteenth Century
The history of modern brands depends to a significant degree on the history of trademark law, but there are reasons to doubt how comprehensive standard versions of the latter history are. Business, economic, and even legal historians tend to accentuate the importance of the Anglo-Saxon common-law tradition and assume that the continental, civil law tradition followed in its wake. Yet the historical sequence of events suggests that almost exactly …
Introduction: Behind the Brand
Once described as “neglected,” brands and brand history have benefited from a recent surge of work in business history, economics, and management studies. This research, however, remains relatively tightly focused. Most attention is given to successful, long-lived brands and to the entrepreneurs who developed them. As in the market, so in research, the attraction of successful brands is understandable. Nevertheless, such a focus only reinforces b…
Information in the Mark and the Marketplace: A Multivocal Account
Trademark theory implicitly assumes that laws favoring the interests of the producer will inevitably serve the interests of the consumer. Such a claim justifies the way that trademark law privileges the voice of the producer in the marketplace. Historical work has tended to endorse this view, explaining the development of trademarks and trademark law in terms of the information needed for consumers in the modern marketplace. Taking both a histori…
Introduction: The Changing Organization of Industry
In his seminal 1972 essay on the “organization of industry,”G. B. Richardson argued that economists had generally viewed firms as “islands of planned co-ordination in a sea of market relations.” Business historians, too, had focused predominantly on the firm (or entrepreneur) and the market. In drawing attention when he did to the “dense networks of co-operation and affiliation by which firms are inter-related,” Richardson was on the forefront of…
Commentary: Debating the Situation
Debating the Situation: A Rejoinder to Palincsar and Wineburg
Commentary: Debating the Situation
Debating the Situation: A Rejoinder to Palincsar and Wineburg
Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
Many teaching methods implicitly assume that conceptual knowledge is independent of the situations in which it is learned and used.The authors examine one such method and argue that its lack of success is a direct result of this assumption.Drawing on recent research into learning in everyday activity and not just in the highly specialized conditions of schooling, they claim that knowledge is not independent but, rather, fundamentally "situated," …
Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation
Recent ethnographic studies of workplace practices indicate that the ways people actually work usually differ fundamentally from the ways organizations describe that work in manuals, training programs, organizational charts, and job descriptions. Nevertheless, organizations tend to rely on the latter in their attempts to understand and improve work practice. We examine one such study. We then relate its conclusions to compatible investigations of…
Coming of Age in Birmingham: Cultural Studies and Conceptions of Subjectivity
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Patrolling the Border: A Reply
(1994). Patrolling the Border: A Reply. Human–Computer Interaction: Vol. 9, Context in Design, pp. 137-149
Borderline Issues: Social and Material Aspects of Design
The shared use of artifacts is, we argue, supported by latent border resources, which lie beyond what is usually recognized as the canonical artifact. These unnoticed resources are developed over time as artifacts are integrated into ongoing practice and stable conventions or genres grow up around them. For a couple of reasons, these resources may now deserve increased attention. First, because they lie outside conventional frames of reference, m…
The Social Life of Documents; introduction by Esther Dyson
Documents are evolving as means for structuring and navigating information space, and resources for constructing and negotiating social space
Organizing Knowledge
Ambiguous company: Institutions and organizations in the port wine trade, 1814–1834 1
Institutional economics turns on some important theoretical dichotomies, in particular those between markets and firms and between institutions and organizations. This paper encourages both economists and historians to consider the middle ground between these extremes. Drawing on a study of the port wine trade at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it notes that both the firms and even the dominant Portuguese institution of the period were r…
The social life of information - Chapter three: Home alone
The social life of information - Chapter one: Limits to information
The social life of information - Chapter two: Agents and angels
The social life of information - Introduction: Tunneling ahead
Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
While the recent focus on knowledge has undoubtedly benefited organizational studies, the literature still presents a sharply contrasting and even contradictory view of knowledge, which at times is described as “sticky” and at other times “leaky.” This paper is written on the premise that there is more than a problem with metaphors at issue here, and more than accounts of different types of knowledge (such as “tacit” and “explicit”) can readily e…
The social life of legal information: First impressions
The rapid development of digital technologies has given rise to numerous predictions about the future of the library and the university. Many of these predictions assume that both are, in essence, providers of information. The reactions of the law school and the law library to information technology present an interesting challenge to this assumption. The former has strongly resisted change, the latter has been quite transformed. The article sugg…
Developing the Brand: The Case of Alcohol, 1800–1880
Historians generally agree that modern brands arose from the vertically integrated corporations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and were used as competitive weapons between like firms. Looking at the alcoholic beverage trade and drawing on trade press, court reports, newspaper advertising, business records, and accounts of consumer behavior, I suggest that, on the contrary, supply chains made up of small firms played both an …
Networks and Knowledge: The Beginning and End of the Port Commodity Chain, 1703–1860
Diversified trading networks have recently drawn a great deal of attention. In the process, the importance of diversity has perhaps been overemphasized. Using the trade in port wine from Portugal to Britain as an example, this essay attempts to show how a market once dominated by general, diversified traders was taken over by dedicated specialists whose success might almost be measured by the degree to which they rejected diversification to form …
Introduction: The Changing Organization of Industry
In his seminal 1972 essay on the “organization of industry,”G. B. Richardson argued that economists had generally viewed firms as “islands of planned co-ordination in a sea of market relations.” Business historians, too, had focused predominantly on the firm (or entrepreneur) and the market. In drawing attention when he did to the “dense networks of co-operation and affiliation by which firms are inter-related,” Richardson was on the forefront of…
The Art of Knowing: Social and Tacit Dimensions of Knowledge and the Limits of the Community of Practice
Community of practice theory is inherently a social theory. As such it is distinct from more individualist accounts of human behavior, such as mainstream economics. Consequently, community of practice theory and economics favor different accounts of knowledge. Taking a community of practice perspective, this article challenges economists' attempts to reduce knowledge to information held by individuals and to reject tacit knowledge as mere uncodif…
Limits of self-organization: "Peer production and "laws of quality
People often implicitly ascribe the quality of peer–production projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia to what I call “laws” of quality. These are drawn from Open Source software development and it is not clear how applicable they are outside the realm of software. I look at examples from peer production projects to ask whether faith in these laws does not so much guarantee quality as hide the need for improvement
Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books
The Google Books Project has drawn a great deal of attention, offering the prospect of the library of the future and rendering many other library and digitizing projects apparently superfluous. To grasp the value of Google's endeavor, we need among other things, to assess its quality. On such a vast and undocumented project, the task is challenging. In this essay, I attempt an initial assessment in two steps. First, I argue that most quality assu…
French Connections: The International Propagation of Trademarks in the Nineteenth Century
The history of modern brands depends to a significant degree on the history of trademark law, but there are reasons to doubt how comprehensive standard versions of the latter history are. Business, economic, and even legal historians tend to accentuate the importance of the Anglo-Saxon common-law tradition and assume that the continental, civil law tradition followed in its wake. Yet the historical sequence of events suggests that almost exactly …
A Case of Prejudice? The Uncertain Development of Collective and Certification Marks
The introduction of collective and certification marks to U.S. law in 1946 by the Lanham Act has generally been regarded as an innovative and forward-looking step. Yet these marks had been widely used by individual states since the previous century, and international conventions had long been pushing the federal government to enact measures to protect them. Indeed, it may be stranger that the U.S. trademark law of 1905 did not include protection …
Introduction: Behind the Brand
Once described as “neglected,” brands and brand history have benefited from a recent surge of work in business history, economics, and management studies. This research, however, remains relatively tightly focused. Most attention is given to successful, long-lived brands and to the entrepreneurs who developed them. As in the market, so in research, the attraction of successful brands is understandable. Nevertheless, such a focus only reinforces b…
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