Understanding sociotechnical action: an introduction to the special issue.
Journal Article
Horton, K., Davenport, E., & Wood-Harper, T. (2004)
Understanding sociotechnical action: an introduction to the special issue. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 1, 1-6
No abstract available. Item is Editorial preface to special issue.
Exploring sociotechnical interaction with Rob Kling: five “big” ideas
Journal Article
Wood‐Harper, T., Horton, K., Davenport, E., & Wood-Harper, T. (2005)
Exploring sociotechnical interaction with Rob Kling: five “big” ideas. Information Technology and People, 18(1), 50-67. https://doi.org/10.1108/09593840510584621
Purpose – To provide a view of Rob Kling’s contribution to socio-technical studies of work.
Design/methodology/approach – The five “big ideas” discussed are signature themes i...
Organizational knowledge and communities of practice
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Hall, H. (2002)
Organizational knowledge and communities of practice. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36(1), 170-227. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440360105
No abstract available for this article.
Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (2001)
Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(9), 770-773. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.1123
Multiple authorship is a topic of growing concern in a number of scientific domains. When, as is increasingly common, scholarly articles and clinical reports have scores or ev...
Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2001)
Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework. Journal of Documentation, 57(1), (61-75). ISSN 0022-0418
Communities of practice have been identified as sites where knowledge is created in organisations. The author reviews studies of situated learning and situated action and sugg...
E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy
Journal Article
Davenport, B. C. E., Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2000)
E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy. Information Society, 17(1), 33-48. doi:10.1080/019722401750067414
Electronic commerce offers immense opportunities to the producers of pornographic products and services. Although this sector generates significant revenues, it is almost invi...
Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry.
Journal Article
Davenport, E., Higgins, M., & Somerville, I. (2000)
Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51, 900-912. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571%282000%2951%3A103.0.CO%3B2-U
The authors describe a study of the social dynamics of new media in Scottish households. The evolving project drew on dialogues with multiple household members elicited in gro...
Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2000)
Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice. Journal of Documentation, 56(5), (505-519). doi:10.1108/eum0000000007125. ISSN 0022-0418
The difficulties of basing healthcare on literary warrant have been explained in different ways: busy practitioners have no time to read extensively, physical access is diffic...
Social intelligence in the age of networks
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2000)
Social intelligence in the age of networks. Journal of Information Science, 26(3), (145-152). doi:10.1177/016555150002600304. ISSN 0165-5515
The author explores the concept of ‘social intelligence’. She
suggests that, in the world of digital commerce, it may be
defined as ‘insight which is based on collective under...
What does it really cost? allocating indirect costs.
Journal Article
Snyder, H., & Davenport, E. (1997)
What does it really cost? allocating indirect costs. Bottom Line, 10(4), 158-164. https://doi.org/10.1108/08880459710183035
Better managerial control in terms of decision making and understanding the total costs of a system or service result from allocating indirect costs. Allocation requires a thr...