We focus on the core institution of the capital market and the institutional work of professional service firms that provide ratings on corporate-issuers, initially in a bid to maintain this institution, which suffered when those involved relied solely on information from the issuers themselves....

In this research in progress we present the initial stage of a large ethnographic study at a healthcare network in the US. Our goal is to understand how healthcare organizations in the US use algorithms to improve efficiency (cost saving) and effectiveness (quality) of healthcare. Our...

Most studies on AC (absorptive capacity) are based on assumptions that are characteristic of viewing knowledge from an epistemology of possession (knowledge is possessed by individuals and is transferable). However, the literature on managing knowledge (or better knowledge work) acknowledges...

The paper arises from research that examined a healthcare coordination improvement initiative that was focused on increasing knowledge sharing among a network of healthcare workers involved in the care of children with complex medical needs. Part of this initiative involved a summary medical...

In this paper we focus on the development of virtual communities of practice (V-CoP) in large-scale projects. We identify a literature gap in the lack of research on V-CoP in the project management literature and we conduct a study of a large-scale ES (Enterprise System) implementation to...

This commentary paper aims to highlight issues associated with the supposed ability to transfer knowledge across networks. In response to the paper “Risks in Organizational Networks: An Exploratory Framework,” (Trkman and Desouza this Issue), we argue that the taken-for-granted assumption...

In this paper, we focus on how firms engaged in enterprise systems (ES) implementations absorb knowledge from consultant companies. We take a practice-based view of absorptive capacity (AC) and focus on how prior-related knowledge - a necessary condition to absorb new external knowledge - is...

In this viewpoint article we discuss algorithmic decision-making systems (ADMS), which we view as organizational sociotechnical systems with their use in practice having consequences within and beyond organizational boundaries. We build a framework that revolves around the ADMS lifecycle and...