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Author(s): Arazy, Ofer; Daxenberger, Johannes; Lifshitz-Assaf, Hila; Nov, Oded; Gurevych, Iryna
Title: Emergent roles in self-organizing knowledge co-production. Turbulence and stability
Published: New York; NY: New York University Stern School of Business, 2016 (Proceedings of the Collective Intelligence Conference 2016)
Publication Type: 5. Arbeits- und Diskussionspapiere; Arbeits- und Diskussionspapier (keine besondere Kategorie)
Language: Englisch
Abstract (english): Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing co-production community models with ambiguous role definitions. This self-organizing is incommensurate with the logic of traditional organizations that is based on a Chandlerian logic and current theories struggle to explain how high-quality knowledge is developed in these settings and how participants self-organize in the absence of role definitions, traditional organizational controls, or formal coordination mechanisms. Investigating the dynamics underlying knowledge co-production work requires a focus on the emergent roles that individuals enact based on the work itself and the tasks that are performed as they emerge. This perspective on roles, that focuses on individuals' role behavior in relation to their work, and stands in contrast to the traditional structural perspective of roles that understands roles as based on social expectation, norms, and status positions. (DIPF/Orig.)
DIPF-Departments: Informationszentrum Bildung