Chun Wei Choo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6628801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chun Wei Choo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chun Wei |
| FAMILY NAME | Choo |
| SIGNATURE | CHOO C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0410-9313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Harming by Deceit
Research on organizational epistemic vice alleges that some organizations are epistemically malevolent, i.e. they habitually harm others by deceiving them. Yet, there is a lack of empirical research on epistemic malevolence. We connect the discussion of epistemic malevolence to the empirical literature on organizational deception. The existing empirical literature does not pay sufficient attention to the impact of an organization’s ability to con…
Provider‐sponsored virtual communities for chronic patients
Patients with long‐term chronic disease experience numerous illness patterns and disease trends over time, resulting in different sets of knowledge needs than patients who intermittently seek medical care for acute or short‐term problems. Health‐care organizations can promote knowledge creation and utilization by chronic patients through the introduction of a virtual, private, disease‐specific patient community. This virtual socialization alters …
Information seeking on the Web by women in IT professions
The paper develops a behavioral model of Web information seeking that identifies four complementary modes of information seeking: undirected viewing, conditioned viewing, informal search, and formal search. In each mode of viewing or searching, users would adopt distinctive patterns of browser moves: starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, and extracting. The model is applied empirically to analyze the Web information seeking b…
Web Work
This book brings together three great motifs of the network society: the search for and use of information by individuals and groups; the creation and application of knowledge in organizations; and the fundamental transformation of these activities as they take place on the World Wide Web and corporate intranets. As research endeavors, these streams overlap and share conceptual constructs, perspectives, and methods of analysis. Although these ove…
Information seeking on the Web
This paper presents findings from a study of how knowledge workers use the Web to seek external information as part of their daily work. Thirty-four users from seven companies took part in the study. Participants were mainly IT specialists, managers, and research/marketing/consulting staff working in organizations that included a large utility company, a major bank, and a consulting firm. Participants answered a detailed questionnaire and were in…
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Web Work
This book brings together three great motifs of the network society: the search for and use of information by individuals and groups; the creation and application of knowledge in organizations; and the fundamental transformation of these activities as they take place on the World Wide Web and corporate intranets. As research endeavors, these streams overlap and share conceptual constructs, perspectives, and methods of analysis. Although these ove…
Information seeking on the Web
This paper presents findings from a study of how knowledge workers use the Web to seek external information as part of their daily work. Thirty-four users from seven companies took part in the study. Participants were mainly IT specialists, managers, and research/marketing/consulting staff working in organizations that included a large utility company, a major bank, and a consulting firm. Participants answered a detailed questionnaire and were in…
Provider‐sponsored virtual communities for chronic patients
Patients with long‐term chronic disease experience numerous illness patterns and disease trends over time, resulting in different sets of knowledge needs than patients who intermittently seek medical care for acute or short‐term problems. Health‐care organizations can promote knowledge creation and utilization by chronic patients through the introduction of a virtual, private, disease‐specific patient community. This virtual socialization alters …
Information seeking on the Web by women in IT professions
The paper develops a behavioral model of Web information seeking that identifies four complementary modes of information seeking: undirected viewing, conditioned viewing, informal search, and formal search. In each mode of viewing or searching, users would adopt distinctive patterns of browser moves: starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, and extracting. The model is applied empirically to analyze the Web information seeking b…
Harming by Deceit
Research on organizational epistemic vice alleges that some organizations are epistemically malevolent, i.e. they habitually harm others by deceiving them. Yet, there is a lack of empirical research on epistemic malevolence. We connect the discussion of epistemic malevolence to the empirical literature on organizational deception. The existing empirical literature does not pay sufficient attention to the impact of an organization’s ability to con…
Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Information retrieval (2 works) · Information seeking (2 works) · Information seeking behavior (2 works) · Knowledge Management and Sharing (2 works) · Academic integrity and plagiarism (1 work)