Aljona Zorina

From a Competing to a Collaborative Crowd: Tactics for Co-creation with Innovative Bottom-up Communities

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Ecology of Games and Translation Processes in Internet and Computer Networks: Perspectives on Technology-Enabled Cross-Organizational Collaboration

This paper studies how social relationships are reshaped by the enactment of ICTs through the interplay of traditional and new actors. Building on the perspectives of an ecology of games and the sociology of translation, we propose a framework to study cross-organizational processes and technology-enabled reconfigurations of power and resources of the interrelated actors. We then illustrate the framework with the case of residential Internet infrastructure development taking place in a developing country context. The proposed framework is helpful to capture the complexity and unpredictability of cross-organizational interactions of the actors embedded in the mesh up of traditional and new actors embedded in the broader context of social, economic and power processes.

Redefining Agency: Indeterminacy and the Role of Extra-Organizational Dynamics in Organizational Routines and Technologies

Understanding the relationships between technologies and organizing has been one of the main concerns of the disciplines of information systems (IS) and organization studies.1 Recent research has found it useful to theorize on the concepts of human and material agencies to address the processes of social and material interweaving constituting technology-organization relations (Hutchby, 2001; Rose & Jones, 2005; Zamutto et al., 2007; Leonardi & Barley, 2008; Orlikowski & Scott, 2008; Leonardi, 2011). Such conceptualizations have the potential to provide valuable insights into the nature and processes constituting everyday working practices and their change (Orlikowski & Scott, 2008); allow an understanding of how and why organizational technologies and routines change over time to produce infrastructures that enable work to be done (Leonardi & Barley, 2008; Leonardi, 2011); and provide a better understanding of how humans and technologies interact and change, from unexpected ways that technologies are used in organizational practices (Schultze & Boland, 2000; Boudreau & Robey, 2005) to workaround changes in the material structure of technology realized by its users (Majchrzak et al., 2000; Orlikowski, 2000; Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Leonardi & Barley, 2008). However, despite these valuable insights, research on agency has several important gaps, such as a lack of consistency in the nature of human and material agencies, and neglecting the embeddedness of the agencies into broader extra-organizational contexts and infrastructures.

Meso Level as an Indicator of Knowledge Society Development

This paper studies the nature and the importance of the link between macro and micro levels of innovation management in the knowledge society of Denmark, Sweden, USA, India, Russia, and Moldova, suggesting that countries with different levels of knowledge society development have different link types between the macro and micro levels of innovation management. In particular, findings show that countries with a higher level of knowledge society development have a two-way mediation process between the micro and macro levels of innovation management while countries with lower level of knowledge society development tend towards a “one-direction†link. This paper argues that innovation management can only be fully effective through paying attention to this intersection, which is free of biases inherent in each individually. The authors conclude by introducing a “meso-level†indicator for knowledge society development and underline areas of further research in the field.

Innovation Management in the Knowledge Economy: The Intersection of Macro and Micro Levels

Although the ideas of innovation management have been developed and indeed implemented widely at the macro and micro levels, the intersection between the two has not been studied to the same extent. We argue that innovation management can only be fully effective through paying attention to this intersection, which is free of biases inherent in each individually. Our research looks at the macro and micro levels of innovation management in Denmark, Sweden, USA, India, Russia and Moldova. It suggests that differences in the success of innovation management between countries lie at the intersection level and in particular at a two-way mediation process between the micro and macro. Paying attention to this aspect of innovation management can develop further the knowledge society.