On the Nature of Distributed Organizing

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Dilemma of Distributed Organizing....Pages 3-8
Distributed Organizing in Practice....Pages 9-13
Framing Distributed Organizing Theoretically....Pages 15-17
Structure of the Thesis....Pages 19-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-27
Order Creation from an Institutional Perspective: Market, Bureaucracy, and Community....Pages 29-38
Order Creation from a Systemic Perspective: Information Flows and Complexity....Pages 39-56
Order Creation from a Transactional Perspective: Creating Practices from Sensemaking Processes....Pages 57-67
Challenges in Distributed Organizing: Ambiguity, Bounded Rationality, and Computer-Mediation....Pages 69-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-75
Institutional Paradigms: Systemic Order Creation in Information Systems....Pages 77-91
Ontologies and Cognitive Maps: Transactional Order Creation through Disambiguating Cognition....Pages 93-108
Facilitating Order Creation in Distributed Organizing: Triggering Practices to Answer External Complexity....Pages 109-116
Ontology-based Distributed Organizing: Answering the Challenges of Distributed Organizing....Pages 117-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-129
Method and Data: Research Question, Field of Research, Data Collection & Analysis....Pages 131-138
Findings: Themes of Interaction in a Network of Researchers....Pages 139-152
Discussion: Creating Transactional Order using Levers of Ambiguity in Sensemaking Processes....Pages 153-158
Creating Systemic Order: Deriving Challenges for Information Systems Design....Pages 159-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-167
From Organizing a Network of Researchers to a Support System for Ontology-based Distributed Organizing....Pages 169-179
Requirements for a Technical Support System for Ontology-based Distributed Organizing....Pages 181-190
System Concept: A Support System for Collaboratively Coping with Complexity....Pages 191-198
System Implementation: A Proof-of-Concept Implementation of the Ensembler Suite....Pages 199-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-213
Final Summary and Contributions of the Dissertation....Pages 215-219
Reflection: Pattern Prototypes in Different Scenarios....Pages 221-224
Managerial Implications....Pages 225-228
Limitations & Directions for Future Research....Pages 229-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-253