Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by D'Adderio, L.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Related Collections
Right arrow D83 - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief
Right arrow L86 - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
Right arrow L96 - Telecommunications
Right arrow O30 - General
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 12, Number 2, pp. 321-350
© 2003 Oxford University Press

Configuring software, reconfiguring memories: the influence of integrated systems on the reproduction of knowledge and routines

Luciana D'Adderio

Research Centre for Social Sciences and Human Communications Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK. Email: l.d-adderio{at}ed.ac.uk.

Abstract

Recent advances in information and communication technologies have provided a substantial push towards the codification of organizational knowledge and practices. It is argued that codification, and the subsequent delegation of organizational memory to software, entails fundamental structural transformations to knowledge and routines as these are reconfigured and replicated in the form of new computer-embedded representations. The paper demonstrates that the process of embedding knowledge and routines in software holds fundamental implications for the ability of heterogeneous organizational groups, functions and communities to co-ordinate their efforts and share knowledge across function-, discipline- and task-specific boundaries.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Ind Corp ChangeHome page
M. Hales and J. Tidd
The practice of routines and representations in design and development
Ind. Corp. Change, August 1, 2009; 18(4): 551 - 574.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.