CETINA, Karin Knorr
Transparency regimes and management by content in global organizations. The case of institutional currency trading - 2001
Argues that informational arrangement may make an organization less of a cumbersome machine by organization exteriorizing organizational processes on screen, making them transparent, witnessable and (reflexively )selfchanging. The plataform organization addresses how some organization - global investiment banks engaged in institutional currency trading and big science collaboratins engaged in high energy physics knowledge production - implement a transparency regime of information that extends to local and implict knowledge. In the words, through being exteriorized, knowledge is kept current, alive and distributes in the respective organizations; to a significant degree, it is effectively precluded from becoming implicit and embodied in places and persons. Corresponds toa form of coordination that is content-driven rather thatn social authority based. "Management by contact" is a knowledge-enhancing, specialist activity closer to mediating and coching than to "governing"and deciding
Information Society
Banking Knowledge Management
Dissemination
Organizational Structure
Transparency regimes and management by content in global organizations. The case of institutional currency trading - 2001
Argues that informational arrangement may make an organization less of a cumbersome machine by organization exteriorizing organizational processes on screen, making them transparent, witnessable and (reflexively )selfchanging. The plataform organization addresses how some organization - global investiment banks engaged in institutional currency trading and big science collaboratins engaged in high energy physics knowledge production - implement a transparency regime of information that extends to local and implict knowledge. In the words, through being exteriorized, knowledge is kept current, alive and distributes in the respective organizations; to a significant degree, it is effectively precluded from becoming implicit and embodied in places and persons. Corresponds toa form of coordination that is content-driven rather thatn social authority based. "Management by contact" is a knowledge-enhancing, specialist activity closer to mediating and coching than to "governing"and deciding
Information Society
Banking Knowledge Management
Dissemination
Organizational Structure
