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With an emphasis on peer–produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously characterized as a hive mind and an information revolution, attracting millions of new users even as it has been denigrated as anarchic and plagued by misinformation. Have Wikipedia's structure and inner workings promoted its astonishing growth and enduring public relevance? In Common Knowledge?, Dariusz Jemielniak draws on his academic expertise and years of active participation within the Wikipedia community to take readers inside the site, illuminating how it functions and deconstructing its distinctive organization. Against a backdrop of misconceptions about its governance, authenticity, and accessibility, Jemielniak delivers the first ethnography of Wikipedia, revealing that it is not entirely at the mercy of the public: instead, it balances open access and power with a unique bureaucracy that takes a page from traditional organizational forms. Along the way, Jemielniak incorporates fascinating cases that highlight the tug of war among the participants as they forge ahead in this pioneering environment.

Organizational sociology. --- Electronic encyclopedias --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Interactive encyclopedias --- Multimedia encyclopedias --- Online encyclopedias --- Electronic publications --- Electronic reference sources --- Organization (Sociology) --- Organization theory --- Sociology of organizations --- Sociology --- Bureaucracy --- Social aspects. --- Wikipedia. --- Organizational sociology --- Social aspects --- E-books

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This critical ethnographic study of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive organization workplaces focuses on the issues of timing and schedules, the perception of formality and trust and distrust in software development as well as motivation and occupational identity among software engineers. The book is a cross-cultural, comparative study of American and European high-tech workplaces that addresses the issues currently of interest to both Academia and to practice and provides a rare international comparison of organizations from both sides of the Atlantic. Its conclusions shed new light o

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‘This current and timely collection brings together an impressive group of contributors, providing us with a comprehensive and detailed view of qualitative methods as practiced today; of benefit to any qualitative researcher in business and management. Highly recommended.’ —Yochanan Altman, Professor of International HRM, Middlesex University, UK   ‘This book is a carefully curated cornucopia of insights for both early career and experienced qualitative researchers seeking to understand the complex social and organizational world we live in.’ —Rob Wilson, Chair of Information Systems Management and Director of the Knowledge Innovation Technology Enterprise Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK   ‘The editors provide us with an inspiring reservoir of intellectual knowledge on how, when and why we apply qualitative methods in organizational studies.  The book is highly recommended for researchers interested in organizations – or other social settings - to dive into this reservoir of approaches and theories.’ —Ann Westenholz, Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark   This book brings together key theories behind qualitative research, whilst drawing attention to novel, cutting-edge approaches to data gathering, such as visual anthropology and storytelling. Offering a comprehensive guide to qualitative analysis, this book goes further than examining research methods to  open a discussion on the roles of reflexivity, imagination, emotions and ethics in qualitative research, Covering topics such as reflective analysis, sociological paradigms, action research and organizational ethnography, this book is ideal reading for those who wish to address the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate research-based edited books and encompasses a wide array of methods. Those exploring organization studies will find this two-volume collection extremely valuable as it contains robust contributions from highly-skilled authors who are actively researching in this field.

Business. --- Leadership. --- Knowledge management. --- Management information systems. --- Industrial management. --- Big data. --- Business and Management. --- Business Process Management. --- Big Data/Analytics. --- Business Information Systems. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Knowledge Management. --- Organization --- Qualitative research --- Research --- Methodology. --- Organisation --- Management --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Data sets, Large --- Large data sets --- Data sets --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Management of knowledge assets --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Communication systems --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Business --- Industrial organization

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"Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative society might be characterized as a series of services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions though technology. Some believe that the economic aspects of the new collaboration have the potential to make society more equitable; others see collaborative communities based on sharing as a cover for social injustice and user exploitation. The book covers the "sharing economy," and the hijacking of the term by corporations; different models of peer production, and motivations to participate; collaborative media production and consumption, the definitions of "amateur" and "professional," and the power of memes; hactivism and social movements, including Anonymous and anti-ACTA protest; collaborative knowledge creation, including citizen science; collaborative self-tracking; and internet-mediated social relations, as seen in the use of Instagram, Snapchat, and Tinder. Finally, the book considers the future of these collaborative tendencies and the disruptions caused by fake news, bots, and other challenges." --Amazon.com.

Online social networks --- Social networks --- Cooperation --- Online social networks. --- Réseaux sociaux (Internet) --- Social networks. --- Réseaux sociaux. --- Cooperation. --- Coopération --- Social Support --- Economics --- Profit-sharing --- Collaborative economy --- Cooperative distribution --- Cooperative movement --- Distribution, Cooperative --- Peer-to-peer economy --- Sharing economy --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Social media --- Sociotechnical systems --- Web sites --- Electronic social networks --- Social networking Web sites --- Virtual communities --- Online Social Support --- Perceived Social Support --- Social Care --- Care, Social --- Online Social Supports --- Perceived Social Supports --- Social Support, Online --- Social Support, Perceived --- Social Supports, Online --- Social Supports, Perceived --- Support, Online Social --- Support, Perceived Social --- Support, Social --- Supports, Perceived Social --- Communities, Online (Online social networks) --- Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) --- Online communities (Online social networks) --- Réseaux sociaux (Internet) --- Réseaux sociaux. --- Coopération

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