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Costs and prices in the digital age

Presentation / Conference
Davenport, E. (2000, February)
Costs and prices in the digital age. Paper presented at the Electronic Library, Loughborough University
No abstract available.

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...

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.

The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry.

Conference Proceeding
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006)
The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37876-3_19
The authors discuss eGovernment as a computerization movement, and present a case study of a small project that was part of a modernising government initiative in a UK municip...

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...

Conflicts of jurisdiction: An exploratory study of academic, professional, and epistemological norms in library and information science

Journal Article
Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2009)
Conflicts of jurisdiction: An exploratory study of academic, professional, and epistemological norms in library and information science. Libri, 46, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1515/libr.1996.46.1.1
Library and information science (LIS) faculty, like their peers in other professional schools, are subject to the demands of at times conflicting jurisdictions: research produ...

Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues.

Journal Article
Davenport, E., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Taylor, K. (2005)
Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 40, 101-108. doi:10.1002/meet.1450400113
‘Classic’ accounts of social capital have emerged in accounts of stable networks or institutional environments. These conditions do not apply in the case of many firms – a cas...

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...

Innovation and hybrid genres: disturbing social rhythm in legal practice.

Conference Proceeding
Horton, K., & Davenport, E. (2004)
Innovation and hybrid genres: disturbing social rhythm in legal practice
This paper explores the non-adoption of an innovation via the concept of hybrid genres, that is digital genres that emerge from a non-digital material precedent. As instances ...

Costing and pricing in the digital age: a practical guide for information services.

Book
Snyder, H., & Davenport, E. (1996)
Costing and pricing in the digital age: a practical guide for information services. Neal-Schuman Publishers
The take-up of electronic information services has been retarded as much by the novel aspects of the pricing and accounting of resources they represent as by fear of technolog...