Invisible Social Infrastructures to Facilitate Time-pressed Distributed Organizing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4356468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul C Van Fenema (0000-0003-0362-0726, Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University, The Netherlands), Christine Räisänen (0000-0002-9976-0573, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden,) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 341-360 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x05055144 |
| OpenAlex | W2114835260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
How do complex societal demands and time constraints posed by distributed temporary organizing affect organizational communication? Extending Bowker and Star's (2002) work on infrastructures, we introduce two context-specific 'invisible', social infrastructures: organizational and relational. We empirically assess their role in an international, multi-site ERP-software implementation. We investigated how these infrastructures shaped organizational activities, aligned discourses, created order, and prevented divergent behaviours. We found that mutually interdependent organizational and relational infrastructures strengthened social relationships and saved time by facilitating non-routine collaboration and organizational communication under geographic and temporal constraints. We argue that the conceptualization of (infra)structural and process dynamics will help researchers and practitioners understand and handle organizational communication in distributed temporary organizations
Business · Conceptualization · Context (archaeology · Interdependence · Knowledge management · Order (exchange · Process (computing · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Knowledge Management and Sharing · Open Source Software Innovations · Team Dynamics and Performance
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Case study research
Longitudinal Field Research on Change
Polycontextuality and boundary crossing in expert cognition
The social organization of distributed cognition.
A theory of the temporary organization
Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm
Projects as Arenas for Renewal and Learning Processes
Polycontextual Construction Zones
Technologizing Discourse to Standardize Projects in Multi-Project Organizations
Swift Trust and Temporary Groups
Transactive Memory
Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams
Qualitative Data Analysis
Central Problems in Social Theory
A Theory of Structure
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |