CETINA, Karin Knorr <br/><br/>
Transparency regimes and management by content in global organizations. The case of institutional currency trading 

 -  2001 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Information Society<br/>Banking Knowledge Management<br/>Dissemination<br/>Organizational Structure