School of Information
University of California, Berkeley
Prof. AnnaLee Saxenian
Spring 2005
INFOSYS 211
Group and
Organizational Approaches to Information Systems Use
January 31 — Information
and Organizations: Classics
Adam Smith "Of the division of labour" and other excerpts from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in Louis Putterman, ed. The Economic Nature of the Firm (Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986) Chapter 1
Frederich Hayek "The use of knowledge in society" American Economic Review 35, 1945: 519-530
Ronald Coase "The nature of the firm" Economica 4, 1937: 386-405
Clifford Geertz "The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing" Supplement to the American Economic Review Vol 68, No 2 (May 1978): 29-32
February 7 — Information
and Organizations: Historical Perspective
Alfred Chandler "The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism" The Sociology of Economic Life, Granovetter and Swedberg, eds. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992): 131-158
Martin Cambell-Kelly "Information Technology and
Organizational Change in the British Census, 1801-1911" in Joanne Yates
and John Van Maanen, eds. Information Technology and Organizational Transformation:
History, Rhetoric, and Practice (
Gina Neff and David Stark "Permanently Beta: Responsive
Organization in the Internet Era" in Howard and Jones, eds. Society Online: The Internet in Context
(Thousand
Susan J. Winter and S. Lynn Taylor "The Role of Information Technology in the Transformation of Work: A Comparison of Post-Industrial, Industrial, and Proto-Industrial Organization" in Yates and Van Maanen, eds. Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: 7-33
February 14 — Managing
Knowledge in Organizations
Linda Argote, B. McEvily & R. Reagans Managing Knowledge in Organizations: An Integrative Framework and Review of Emerging Themes. Management Science,2003, 49: 571-582
Morten T, Hanson, M. "Knowledge Networks: Explaining Effective Knowledge Sharing in Multiunit Companies" Organization Science,2003, 13: 232 -248.
Robert McDermott "Why IT Inspired But Cannot Deliver
Knowledge Management"
February 21 — President's Day
February 28 — Learning in Organizations
Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991) Chapters 1,2, 4 & 5
Marcie J. Tyre and Eric von Hippel "The Situated Nature of Adaptive Learning in Organizations" Organization Science, Vol. 8, No.1 (Jan-Feb 1997): 71-83
Barbara Levitt and James
March "Organizational Learning" American Review
of Sociology 14 (1988) 319-240
Samer Faraj and Lee Sproull
"Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams" Management Science Vol
46, No 12 (2000): 1554-1568
March 7 — Information
and the Organization of Production
Marcie J. Tyre "Managing Innovation on the Factory Floor" Technology Review (October 1991): 59-65
Takahiro Fujimoto The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) Chapters 1 & 4
Karl E. Weick and Karlene H. Roberts. "Collective mind in
organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks" Administrative Science
Quarterly, 38 (1993): 357-381
Gene I. Rochlin, Todd R. LaPorte, and Karlene H. Roberts
"The Self-Designing High Reliability Organization: Aircraft Carrier Flight
Operations at Sea" in Naval
March 14 — Small Worlds and Social Networks
Marc Granovetter
"Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness" American Journal of Sociology 19 (1985):
481-510
Ronald S. Burt
"Bandwidth and Echo: Trust, Information, and Gossip in Social Networks" in
James Rauch and Alessandra Casella, eds. Networks
and Markets (
Rob Cross, Stephen
Borgatti, Andrew Parker "Making Invisible Work Visible: Using Social Network
Analysis to Support Strategic Collaboration"
Nitin Nohria and Robert G. Eccles "Face-to-Face: Making
Network Organizations Work" in Nohria and Eccles, eds. Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action (Cambridge
MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1992): 288-308
March 21 — Spring
Break
March 28 — New Business Models: Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Joseph Schumpeter "Entrepreneurship as Innovation" in R.
Swedberg, ed. Entrepreneurship: The
Social Science View,
AnnaLee Saxenian Regional
Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 Chapters
1-3
Clayton M. Christensen The
Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (
Henry Chesbrough Open
Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (
April 4 — New Business Models: Redefining Firm Boundaries
Carliss Y Baldwin and Kim B. Clark "Managing in an Age of Modularity" Harvard Business Review Sept-Oct 1997: 84-93
Susan Helper, John Paul MacDuffie and
Toshihiro Nishiguchi and Alexandre Beaudet "Fractal Design:
Self-Organizing Links in Supply Chain Management" in G. von Krogh et. al. eds, Knowledge Creation: A Source of Value
(
Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput and Laurel Smith-Doerr "Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology" Administrative Science Quarterly, 41 (1996): 116-145
April 11 — New Product Development
Allen Ward, Jeffrey Lliker, John Cristiano and Durward Sboek
"The Second
Richard K. Lester and Michael J. Piore Innovation: The Missing Dimension (
April 18 — New Business Models: Heterarchy
John Henry
Clippinger III "Tags: The Power or Labels in Shaping Markets and Organizations"
in Clippinger, ed. The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of
Daniel Beunza and
David Stark "Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall
Street trading room" Industrial and
Corporate Change V13, No 2 (2004): 369-400
Monique Girard and
David Stark "Distributed Intelligence and organizing diversity in new-media
projects" Environment and Planning A,
Vol 34, 2002: 1927-1949
April 25 — Information Systems and Globalization
James Herbsleb, Thomas Hinholt and Rebecca Grinter "An Empirical Study of Global Software Development: Distance and Speed" IEEE, 2001: 81-90
Stephanie Teasley, Lilsa Covi, M.S. Krishnan, Judith Olsen "Rapid Software Development through Team Collocation" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol 28, No. 7 July 2002
Gary Olson and Judith Olson "Mitigating the Effects of Distance On Collaborative Intellectual Work" Economics of Innovation and New Technology Vol 12 (1), 2003: 27-42
Shmuel Ellis and Marcie J. Tyre "Helping Relations Between Technology Users and Developers: A Vignette Study" IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol 48, No 1 (February 2001): 56-69
May 2 — Toward a New Synthesis?
Naomi R. Lamoreaux,
Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin "Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a
New Synthesis of American Business History"
The American Historical Review Vol 108, No 2,
Richard N. Langlois "The vanishing hand: the changing dynamics of industrial capitalism" Industrial and Corporate Change 12/2 2003: 351-385
Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin "Neither Modularity or
Relational Contracting: Inter-firm Collaboration in the New Economy"
May 9 — The Big Picture
Susan L. Star and Karen Ruhleder "Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces" in Yates and Van Maanen, eds. Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: 305-345
Peter M. Senge and Goran Carstedt "Innovating our Way to the
Next Industrial Revolution" in Malone, Laubacher, and Morton, eds. Inventing
the Organizations of the 21st Century (