Dynamics of inter-organizational knowledge creation and information technology use across object worlds: The case of an innovative construction project

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 569-588

  Berente, Nicholas ^a   Baxter, Ryan ^b   Lyytinen, Kalle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information pooling; Information technology; Inter organizational systems; Knowledge creation; Project governance

Indexed keywords

COMMON INFORMATION; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; HIGHER-DEGREE; ICT PLATFORMS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION POOLING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USE; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; MULTI-LEVEL; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES; ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PROJECT GOVERNANCE; RELATIONAL FORMS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DESIGN; DYNAMICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH;

INNOVATION;

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROJECT DESIGN;

EID: 77955907821     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2010.489926     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Argyres, N.S. (1999) The impact of information technology on coordination: evidence from the B-2 'stealth' bomber. Organization Science, 10(2), 162-80.
2. Bailey, D.E., Leonardi, P.M. and Chong, J. (2007) Conceptualizing and understanding technology interdependence in knowledge work. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2-3 August.
3. Bas, E. (2001) Frank Gehry design is striking, unusual, Snips Magazine, 1 October, available at http://www.snipsmag.com/Articles/Feature_Article/eac74db667aa7010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0
4. Baxter, R. (2008) Middle range theorizing about information technology impact: a study of 3D CAD impact on construction work practices, PhD dissertation, Information Systems Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
5. Bensaou, M. (1997) Interorganizational cooperation: the role of information technology: an empirical comparison of US and Japanese supplier relations. Information Systems Research, 8(2), 107-24.
6. Berente, N., Srinivasan, N., Yoo, Y., Boland, R.J. and Lyytinen, K. (2007) Binate diversity and the rolling edge of design networks. Paper presented at the International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal, Canada, 9-12 December.
7. Boland, R.J. and Collopy, F. (2004) Managing as Designing, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
8. Boland, R.J. and Tenkasi, R.V. (1995) Perspective making and perspective-taking in communities of knowing. Organization Science, 6(4), 350-72.
9. Boland, R.J., Lyytinen, K. and Yoo, Y. (2007) Wakes of innovation in project networks: the case of digital 3-D representations in architecture, engineering, and construction. Organization Science, 18(4), 631-47.
10. Brady, T. and Davies, A. (2004) Building project capabilities: from exploratory to exploitative learning. Organization Studies, 25(9), 1601-21.
11. Bresnen, M. and Marshall, N. (2000) Partnering in construction: a critical review of issues, problems and dilemmas. Construction Management and Economics, 18, 229-37.
12. Bresnen, M., Edelman, L., Newell, S., Scarbrough, H. and Swan, J. (2003) Social practices and the management of knowledge in project networks. International Journal of Project Management, 21, 157-66.
13. Bresnen, M., Goussevskaia, A. and Swan, J. (2004) Embedding new management knowledge in project-based organizations. Organization Studies, 25(9), 1535-55.
14. Brown, J.S. and Duguid, P. (1991) Organizational learning and communities-of-practice: toward a unified view of working, learning, and innovation. Organization Science, 2(1), 40-57.
15. Bucciarelli, L.L. (1994) Designing Engineers, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
16. Choudhury, V. (1997) Strategic choices in the development of interorganizational information systems. Information Systems Research, 8(1), 1-24.
17. Coase, R.H. (1937) The nature of the firm. Economica, 4(16), 386-405.
18. Cook, S.D.N. and Brown, J.S. (1999) Bridging epistemologies: the generative dance between organizational knowledge and organizational knowing. Organization Science, 10(4), 381-400.
19. Dyer, J.H. and Singh, H. (1998) The relational view: cooperative strategy and sources of interorganizational competitive advantage. Academy of Management Review, 23(4), 660-79.
20. Gal, U., Lyytinen, K. and Yoo, Y. (2008) The dynamics of IT boundary objects, information infrastructures, and organisational identities: the introduction of 3D modelling technologies into the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. European Journal of Information Systems, 17(3), 290-304.
21. Gann, D.M. and Salter, A.J. (2000) Innovation in project-based, service-enhanced firms: the construction of complex products and systems. Research Policy, 29(7), 955-72.
22. Granovetter, M. (1985) Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology, 91(3), 481-510.
23. Grover, V., Teng, J.T.C. and Fiedler, K.D. (2002) Investigating the role of information technology in building buyer-supplier relationships. Journal for the Association of Information Systems, 3, 217-45.
24. Harty, C. (2005) Innovating in construction: a sociology of technology approach. Building Research & Information, 33(6), 512-22.
25. Harty, C. (2008) Implementing innovation in construction: contexts, relative boundedness and actor-network theory. Construction Management and Economics, 26(10), 1029-41.
26. Helper, S. and Khambete, S. (2005) Off-shoring, interfaces, and collaboration across the supply chain: a case study in automotive product development. Working paper prepared for the International Motor Vehicle Program, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
27. Helper, S., MacDuffie, J.P. and Sabel, C. (2000) Pragmatic collaborations: advancing knowledge while controlling opportunism. Industrial and Corporate Change, 9(3), 443-88.
28. Inkpen, A.C. and Dinur, A. (1998) Knowledge management processes and international joint ventures. Organization Science, 9(4), 454-68.
29. Katzy, B., Evaristo, R. and Zigurs, I. (2000) Knowledge management in virtual projects: a research agenda, in Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, 4-7 January.
30. Lawrence, P.R. and Lorsch, J.W. (1967) Organization and Environment: Managing Differentiation and Integration, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
31. Leonardi, P.M. and Barley, S.R. (2008) Materiality and change: challenges to building better theory about technology and organizing. Information & Organization, 18, 159-76.
32. Levina, N. and Vaast, E. (2006) Turning a community into a market: a practice perspective on information technology use in boundary spanning. Journal of Management Information Systems, 22(4), 13-37.
33. Majchrzak, A., Rice, R.E., Malhotra, A., King, N. and Ba, S. (2000) Technology adaptation: the case of a computer-supported interorganizational virtual team. MIS Quarterly, 24(4), 569-600.
34. Malhotra, A., Gosain, S. and El Sawy, O. (2005) Absorptive capacity configurations in supply chains: gearing for partner-enabled market knowledge creation. MIS Quarterly, 29(1), 145-87.
35. Malone, T.W., Yates, J. and Benjamin, R.I. (1987) Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies. Communications of the ACM, 30(6), 484-97.
36. Nonaka, I. (1994) A dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation. Organization Science, 5(1), 14-37.
37. Powell, W.W. (1990) Neither market nor hierarchy: network forms of organization. Research in Organizational Behavior, 12, 295-336.
38. Powell, W.W., Koput, K.W. and Smith-Doerr, L. (1996) Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: networks of learning in biotechnology. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(1), 116-45.
39. Prawel, D. (2008) Interoperability isn't (yet) and what's being done about it, in Bartolo et al. (eds) Virtual and Rapid Manufacturing, Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK.
40. Ring, P.S. and Van de Ven, A.H. (1994) Developmental processes of cooperative interorganizational relationships. Academy of Management Review, 19(1), 90-118.
41. Sabel, C. (2004) Neither modularity nor relational contracting: inter-firm collaboration in the new economy. Enterprise and Society, 5(3), 388-403.
42. Sapsed, J. and Salter, A. (2004) Postcards from the edge: local communities, global programs and boundary objects. Organization Studies, 25(9), 1515-34.
43. Scarborough, H., Swan, J., Laurent, S., Bresnen, M., Edelman, L. and Newell, S., (2004) Project-based learning and the role of learning boundaries. Organization Studies, 25(9), 1579-600.
44. Schultze, U. and Orlikowski, W. (2004) A practice perspective on technology-mediated network relations: the use of internet-based self-serve technologies. Information Systems Research, 15(1), 87-106.
45. Sydow, J., Lindkvist, L. and DeFillippi, R. (2004) Project-based organizations, embeddedness and repositories of knowledge: editorial. Organization Studies, 25(9), 1475-89.
46. Taylor, J.E. and Levitt, R. (2007) Innovation alignment and project network dynamics: an integrative model for change. Project Management Journal, 38(3), 22-35.
47. Uzzi, B. (1997) Social structure and competition in interfirm networks: the paradox of embeddedness. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42(1), 35-67.
48. Vaast, E. and Levina, N. (2006) Multiple faces of codification: organizational redesign in an IT organization. Organization Science, 17(2), 190-201.
49. Van de Ven, A.H., Polley, D.E., Garud, R. and Venkatara-man, S. (1999) The Innovation Journey, Oxford University Press, New York.
50. Whyte, J., Ewenstein, B., Hales, M. and Tidd, J. (2008) Visualizing knowledge in project-based work. Long Range Planning, 41, 74-92.
51. Williamson, O.E. (1985) The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, The Free Press, New York.
52. Winch, G. (1998) Zephyrs of creative destruction: understanding the management of innovation in construction. Building Research & Information, 26(4), 268-79.
53. Yin, R.K. (2003) Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
54. Yoo, Y., Boland, R.J. and Lyytinen, K. (2006) From organization design to organization designing. Organization Science, 17, 215-29.