PAUL DUGUID

CV 1/2012

Positions

  2005—present Adjunct Full Professor, School of Information
University of California, Berkeley
  2008—present Visiting Research Fellow in Business History
School of Management, York University, UK
  2005—present Professorial Research Fellow
Queen Mary, University of London
  2005—present Honorary Research Fellow
Institute for Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development
Lancaster University
  2005—2006 Visiting Fellow, Center for Science, Technology, and Society
Santa Clara University
  2002—2003 Visiting Professor, Organizational and Industrial Sociology
Copenhagen Business School
  2003 Maître de Recherche, Centre du Recherche en Gestion
École Polytechnique, Paris
  1992—2004 Research Specialist, Social and Cultural Studies in Education
University of California, Berkeley
  1988—2001 Consultant, Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, California
  1987—1990 Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Learning
Palo Alto, California
  1981—1987 Senior Editor, Granville Publishing, London

Books

  The Social Life of Information, with J.S. Brown, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000 (paperback 2001)

Chapters available online at Sociallifeofinformation.com
listed by Tom Davenport in Wall Street Journal, May 2011 as "an essential book for managers making sense of information" and by Anthony Grafton in New York Review of Books, December 2010 as a milestone for historical scholarship

Italian edition: La Vita Sociale dell'Informazione: Miti e Realité nell'Era di Intternet. with preface by Carlo Formenti, (trans. Giovanni Negro) Bologna: Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche (SEPS), 2001

Brazilian edition: A Vida Social da Informação (trans. Celso Roberto Paschoa) São Paulo: Makron Books Ltda, 2001

Dutch edition: De Waarde van Informatie, Amsterdam: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2000

Korean edition, Seoul, South Korea: Keorum Publishing, 2001

Chinese edition (complex characters), Taiwan: Prophet Press, 2001

Chinese edition (simplified characters), Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 2004

Japanese edition, Tokyo: Nikkei Publishing, 2002

Edited Books

  Trademarks, Brands, and Competitiveness, with T. Silva Lopes, London: Routledge, 2010

Articles, chapters, etc.

  ["AD" = "author's draft"]
  A Case of Prejudice? The Uncertain Development of Collective and Certification Marks, forthcoming, Business History Review, forthcoming 2012AD

Looking Askance at Trademark History [Introduction to special section on trademark history], with T. Silva Lopes, forthcoming, Business History Review, forthcoming 2012

O render da Guarda: Firmas britânicas no comércio do vinho do Porto de 1777 a 1840 in G.M. Pereira, ed., A História do Douro e do Vinho do Porto vol 4 Crise e Reconstrução. O Douro e o Vinho do Porto no Século XIX, Porto: Afrontamento, 2011 AD--English version

Marques Frontières, Libellio, 2011 7: 3-13

Introduction: Brands and Competitivness, in T. Silva Lopes and P. Duguid, eds., Trademarks, Brands, and Competitiveness, London: Routledge, 2010

Brands in Chains, in T. Silva Lopes and P. Duguid, eds., Trademarks, Brands, and Competitiveness, London: Routledge, 2010

Reading Registrations: An Overview of 100 Years of Trade Mark Registrations in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with T. Silva Lopes and J. Mercer, in T. Silva Lopes and P. Duguid, eds., Trademarks, Brands, and Competitiveness, London: Routledge, 2010

Search before grep: A Progress from Open to Closed? in Konrad Becker & Felix Stalder, eds., Deep Search, Vienna: Studienverlag, 2009 AD
German translation:
"Die Suche vor grep: Eine Entwicklung von Geschlossenheit zu Offenheit," in Konrad Becker & Felix Stalder, eds., Deep Search: Politik des Suchens jenseits von Google, Vienna: Studienverlag, 2009

French Connections: The Propagation of Trade Marks in the Nineteenth Century, Enterprise and Society, 2009: 10(1): 3-37 (available online)
Winner of the first Mira Wilkins award for the best article on International and Comparative History, 2010

The Community of Practice Then and Now. In Ash Amin and Joanne Roberts, eds., Organizing for the Creative Economy: Community, Practice, and Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008: 1-10

Inheritance or Loss: A Brief Survey of Google Books. First Monday, 2007 12(8)

"Awards as Norms," response to Bruno Frey, "Awards as Compensation." European Management Review, 2007 4: 15-18

The Douro and Its Wine In the English Imagination. [Written for the 250th anniversary of the initial demarcation of the port wine region.] In Gaspar Martins Pereira & Paula Montes Leal,O Douro Contemporaneo, Porto: GEHVID, 2007: 181-196.

What Talking Tells Us, Organization Studies, 2006 27(12): 1794-1804

Limits of Self-Organization: Peer Production and the "Laws of Quality". First Monday, 2006: 11(10)

Untidy or Untractable? G.B. Richardson's View of Economics. Aegis le Libello, 2005: 2-6

Introduction [to special issue on wine and networks], Business History Review, 2005 79(3): 453-466

Networks and Knowledge: The Beginning and End of the Port Commodity Chain, 1703-1860, Business History Review, 2005 79(3): 499-526
Winner of the Newcomen-Harvard Article award for 2005

Comprendre l'Innovation: Le Chaánon Manquant. [Debate with Richard Lester and Antonio Strati] Gerer et Comprendre: Série des Annales des Mines, 2005 81: 70-72

"The Art of Knowing": Social and tacit dimensions of knowledge and the limits of the community of practice. The Information Society 2005 21(2): 109-118
republished in
D. W. Livingstone and David Guile, eds., The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning: Critical Perspectives. Amsterdam: Sense, forthcoming, 2012

and in
Ash Amin and Joanne Roberts, eds., Organizing for the Creative Economy: Community, Practice, and Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008: 69-89
Brands and Supply Chains: Governance before and after Chandler. In H. Dumez, ed., Contradictions et Dynamique des Organisations. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005: 329-369

The Methuen Treaty in the English Imagination. Historia, 2004 3(4): 9-36
"PG Tips" [a critique of Project Gutenberg and ideas of the Web as a universal library] Times Literary Supplement [TLS] June 11, 2004

Developing the Brand: The Case of Alcohol, 1800-1880. Enterprise & Society, 2003 4(3): 405-441

Links and Lugares da Memória: The Douro's Historic Distributed Commercial Archive. In F. de Sousa, ed., Os Arquivos da Vinha e do Vinho no Douro. CEPESE: Porto, 2003: 113-123

In Vino Veritas? Introduction to M. Kenney & R. Florida, eds., Locating Global Advantage: Industry Dynamics in a Globalizing Economy. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003: xiii-xxxi

Local Knowledge: Innovation in the Networked Age, with J.S. Brown. Management Learning (Special issue on Knowledge-Based Perspectives on Organization, H. Tsoukas, ed.), 2002 33(4): 427-438

The Social Life of Legal Information: First Impressions, First Monday 2002 7(9)

Divide and Rule: Regulation in the Port Wine Trade, 1812-1840, with Teresa Silva Lopes. In T. Gourvish, ed., Business History Year Book 3, Aldershot, UK: European Society for Business History, 2001: 1-24

Tudo em Detalhas: Instantâneos sobre o Comércio de Vinho do Porto entre 1777 e 1786. O Douro, 2001 10: 45-72

Knowledge and Organization: A Social Practice Perspective, with J.S. Brown. Organization Science 2001 12(2): 198-213
republished in
Fundamentals of Human Resource Development, ed Davide McGuire & Larry Dooley, London: Sage, 2011
Innovation and Knowledge Management, ed N. Anderson and Ana Cristina Costa, London: Sage, 2010
Knowledge and Learning in the Firm, ed B. Nooteboom, London: Edward Elgar, 20006
Creativity Versus Structure: A Useful Tension, with John Seely Brown. Sloan Management Review2001 42(4): 93

Don't Count Society Out, with John Seely Brown. In Peter J. Denning, ed., Invisible Future, New York: McGraw-Hill 2001: 117-144

Technology, Markets, & the New Political Economy of Higher Education, with Sheila Slaughter & Jeffrey Kittay. Liberal Education 2001 87(2): 6-17

A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists, with John Seely Brown. In Albert Teich, Stephen Nelson, Celia McEnaney, & Stephen Lita, eds., AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, Washington DC, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001: 77-84

Structure and Spontaneity: Knowledge and Organization, with J.S. Brown. In Ikujiro Nonaka & David Teece, eds., Managing Industrial Knowledge: Creation, Transfer, and Utlization, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001: 44-67
republished in Portuguese as
Estrutura e Espontaneidade: Conhecimento e Organização, trans A. Brandão. In M.T. Fleury & M. Oliveira, eds, Gestão, Estratégica do Conhecimento: Integrando Aprendizagem, Conhecimento e Compências. São Paolo, Brazil: Editora Atlas SA, 2001: 50-85
Risken der Information: Eine Gesellschaftskritik des informationszeitalters. GDI-Impuls 4, 2000 (November), 22-29

Limits to Information, with John Seely Brown. Educause 2000 6(35): 74-87

Mysteries of the Region: Knowledge Dynamics in Silicon Valley, with John Seely Brown. In Chong-Moon Lee, William Miller, Henry Rowen, & Marguerite Hancock, eds. The Silicon Valley: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000: 16-39

Balancing Act: How to Capture Knowledge Without Killing it, with J.S. Brown. Harvard Business Review 2000 (May-June): 73-80

Re-engineering the Future: A Response to Bill Joy, with J.S. Brown. The Industry Standard 2000 (April 24)

Practice Makes Process, with J.S. Brown (and commentary from Michael Hammer). CIO 2000 (March 1)

O Vintage antes do Vintage. O Douro 1999 8(2): 51-73

Ambiguous Company: Institutions and Organizations in the Port Wine Trade, 1814-1834, with Teresa Silva Lopes. Scandinavian Economic History Review, special issue on Institutional Theory and Business History, Mary Rose & Sverre Knutson eds. 1999 47(1): 83-102

The Company You Keep: The Port Trade and the Decline of the Wine Company, with Teresa Silva Lopes. In A. Vieira, ed., Os Vinhos Licorosos e a História. Funchal, Madeira: Centro de Estudos de História do Atlãntico, 1999: 285-309

Organizing Knowledge, with J.S. Brown, California Management Review Spring, 1998 401(3): 90-111
republished in
Reflections: The SoL Journal (with commentaries by Wanda Orlikowski and Etienne Wenger) 1999 (1) 2: 28-44<

and in
Knowledge, Learning, & Routines, eds. Nathalie Lazaric & Edward Lorenz, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002
Organizing Knowledge, with J.S. Brown. In P. Lloyd & P. Boylan, eds., Web-Weaving: Intranets, Extranets, and Strategic Alliances. Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998: 29-46

Digital Libraries: Report of the Santa Fe Planning Workshop on Distributed Knowledge Work Environments, with Dan Atkins Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan School of Information, 1997

Lavradores, Exportadores, Comissários, e Capitalistas: Os Componentes da Região do Vinho do Porto, O Douro 1996 1(2): 201-224

The University in the Digital Age, with J.S. Brown, Times Higher Education Supplement 1996 (May 10, Multimedia Supplement): iv-vi

The University in the Digital Age, with J.S. Brown, Change: Journal of the American Association of Higher Education 1996 (July/August): 11-19
republished in
The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century, ed. B. Hawkins and P. Battin, Washington D.C.: Association of American Universities and Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998: 39-60
A Produĉão de Famílias: O Comércio na História, with Jean Lave. O Douro 1996 1(1): 97-120

Keeping it Simple, with J.S. Brown. In T. Winograd, ed., Exploring Software Design, Addison-Wesley , 1996: 129-145
translated into Japanese, 1997
Material Matters: The Past and the Futurology of the Book. In The Future of the Book, G. Nunberg, ed. Brussels, Belgium: Brepols, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996: 63-102
exerted in
The Book History Reader, ed. David Finkelstein, London: Routledge, 2006
The Social Life of Documents, with J.S. Brown. Release 1.0 special issue
Available in Hungarian at the Hungarian Electronic Library (gopher://gopher.mek.iif.hu)
republished in
First Monday 1996 1(1)
Writing Materials, ed. E. Tribble and A. Trubek, New York: Longman, 2002
Practice at the Periphery: A reply to Steve Tripp, with J.S. Brown. Educational Technology, 1994 34(8): 9-11
republished in
Perspectives on Situated Learning, ed. H. McLellan, New Jersey: Education Technology Books, 1995: 169-174

Borderline Issues, with J.S. Brown. Human-Computer Interaction, 9 (1)(1994): 3-36, invited paper for special issue on &39;context in design&39; with 25 commentaries by scholars and critics

Patrolling the Border: A reply to our critics, with J.S. Brown. Human-Computer Interaction 1994 9(1): 137-149

Technology Design for Democratic Practice: Towards informed participation, with J.S. Brown and S. Haviland. Washington, D.C.: Aspen Institute Report, 1994. Aspen Quarterly 1994 (fall)

Rethinking the Border in Product Design: An exploration of central and peripheral relations in practice, with J.S. Brown. In S. Yelavich, ed., The Edge of the Millennium: An International Critique of Architecture, Urban Planning, Product, and Communication Design. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1993

Stolen Knowledge, with John Seely Brown. Educational Technology 33(3): 10-15, 1993
republished in
Perspectives on Situated Learning, ed. H. McLellan, New Jersey: Education Technology Books, 1995: 47-56
Coming of Age in Birmingham: Cultural studies and Conceptions of Subjectivity, with Jean Lave, Eric Axel, and Nadine Fernandez. Annual Reviews of Anthropology, 21: 257-282, 1992

Enacting Design, with J.S. Brown. In P. Adler and T. Winograd, eds., Automation for Usability, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992: 164-197

Organizational Learning: Towards a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation, with J.S. Brown. Organization Science 1991 2(1): 40-57

republished in
Innovation and Knowledge Management, ed N. Anderson and Ana Cristina Costa, London: Sage, 2010

and in
Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, ed. William H. Starbuck, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2008

and in
Organizational Learning: Perspectives and Practices, ed. Bhaskar Basu, Hydrebad; ICFA University Press, 2006

and in
Knowledge and Learning in the Firm, ed B. Nooteboom, London: Edward Elgar, 2006

and in
Management of Innovation, ed. John Storey. Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar, 2004

and in
Networks, ed Gernot Grabher & Walter Powell, Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar, 2004

and in
Knowledge and Communities, ed. Eric Lesser, London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000: 99-122

and in
Organizational Learning, ed. Michael Cohen & Lee Sproull, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996: 58-83

and in
New Thinking in Organizational Theory: From Social Engineering to Reflective Action, ed. Haridimos Tsoukas, London: Heinemann, 1994: 165-187

Italian translation in
I Contesti Sociali Dell'Apprendimento: Acquisire Conoscenze a Scuola, Nel Lavoro, Nella Vita Quotidiana, ed. Clotilde Pontecorvo, Anna Ajello, Cristina Zucchermaglio, Milan, Italy: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 1995: 327-354
Situating the Debate, with J.S. Brown and A. Collins. Education Researcher 1989: 18 (4): 32-42

Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning, with J.S. Brown and A. Collins. Education Researcher, 18 [1]: 32-42 1989

translated into Japanese, 1990

republished in
Perspectives on Situated Learning, ed H. McLellan, New Jersey: Education Technology Books, 1995: 19-44

Encyclopaedia articles

  Porto. History of World Trade Since 1450, John J. McCusker, ed. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2005

Sociocultural Perspectives. Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning, Anna Di Stefano, Kjell Erik Rudestam, Robert J. Silverman, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004

Communities of Practice. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Karen Christensen & David Levinson, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003

Recent newspaper articles and reviews

  Review of Adrian Johns, Piracy. Business History Review, 2011

Martial's Modern Arts Review of Thompson, Merchants of Culture, Horowitz, Publishing as a Vocation, and Bonnet, Phantoms on the Bookshelves. TLS Feb 22, 2011

Review of Catherine Fisk, Working Knowledge. Business History Review, Spring 2011

Spin Cycle, Review of Tim Wu, The Master Switch & Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants. Nation, January 10/17 2011

Switching About, Review of Nicholas Carr, The Shallows, TLS October 2010
Privacy Degree Zero. Review of Daniel Solove, Understanding Privacy, Nation April 5, 2010

Heaven Knows. Review of Victor Mayer-Schönberger, Delete TLS November 2009

Saving Paper. Review of Gary Hall, Digitize this Book TLS July 2009 After Entropy, Review of Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody. TLS May, 2008

Review of Charles Woolenberg, Berkeley: A City in History. TLS March, 2008

Dingy Denizens, Review of Malcolm Jack, Lisbon: City of the Sea. TLS February 22, 2008

Departure Points. Review of Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture. TLS September 12, 2007

Netting Out. Review of Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture. TLS November 10, 2006

Literary Culture, Review of Jonathan Wild, The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Cuture,. TLS September 1, 2006

Netizens Awake, review of Yochai Benkler, Wealth of Networks. TLS July 7, 2006

Bodoni Bold, Review of Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. TLS, June, 2005

Lots of Copies. Review of James Raven, Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity. TLS July 16, 2004

Review of Christy Campbell, Phylloxera: How Wine Was Saved for the World. TLS March 26, 2004

A Suitcase Heading for Mars, Review of Francis Spufford, Backroom Boys. TLS November 7, 2003

Swiss Roles and Megabytes, Review of Georgina Ferry, A Computer Called LEO. TLS April 11, 2003

Getting and Spending, Review of Paul Delaney, Literature, Money, and the Market: From Trollope to Amis. TLS December 10, 2002

Mind the Gap, Review of Yvonne Dittrich, Christiane Floyd, and Ralf Klischewski (eds.), Social Thinking—Software Practice, Ubiquity-the ACM's Magazine and Forum August, 2002

Journey's End, Review of Colin Thubron, To the Last City. TLS July 5, 2002

An Adventuress, Review of Eça de Queiroz, The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers. TLS November 20, 2000

After All the Shouting, a Napster Compromise Seems Likely, Opinion page article, San José Mercury July 24, 2000

Goodbye to the Englishman's wine, Review of R. Mayson, Port and the Douro and H. Oldenburg, Port. TLS, May 26, 2000

Net or Spider's Web, Review of L. Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. TLS March 24, 2000

Nameless Virtues, Review of José Saramago, Todos os Nomes. TLS October 15, 1999

Letter from São Paolo. TLS October 1, 1999

Computers and translation. Threepenny Review June, 1997

Missing, Review of Fred Inglis, Raymond Williams. The Nation March 11, 1996

Other articles and reviews in San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Review of Books, TLS

Research awards

  2006—2009 ESRC, UK Reassing the Mark: A Historical View of Trademarks and British Competitiveness, with Teresa da Silva Lopes, Queen Mary, University of London
  2004—2005 ESRC/SSRC Visiting Fellowship Grant
  2003 Maitre de Rechêrche, École Polytechnique, Paris
  2001—2002 Fellow, Center for the Public Domain
  1995—1998 National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington D.C. Collaborative Grants Division Producing Families: Trading in History, with Jean C. Lave
  1995—1998 Fundação Luso-American, Portugal Producing Families: Trading in History, with Jean C. Lave

Recent teaching

  2009-2010 Concepts of Information, graduate course, School of Information, U.C. Berkeley
  2004—2007 The Quality of Information, graduate course, School of Information, U.C. Berkeley
  2006-2010 The History of Information, undergraduate course, U.C. Berkeley
  2006-2010 Doctoral Colloquium, graduate course, School of Information, U.C. Berkeley
  2008-2010 Politics of Piracy (DeCal faculty supervisor), U.C. Berkeley

Recent Talks, Interviews, Presentations


  Of an Age or for All Time? Conflicts in the History of "Information," Invited contribution to American Historical Association plenary session: "How to Write a History of Information: Session in Honor of Peter Burke." Chicago, January 5, 2012

"Great Tradition" or "Great Transformation": Reading Trends in Media History. Invited keynote. Australia Media Traditions 2011: Trends, Traditions, and Transformations. Melbourne Australia, November 22, 2011

Scholarship, Scholarly Resources, and Scholarly Practice in the 21st Century. Invited keynote. American Research Libraries Forum: 21st-Century Collections and the Urgency of Collaborative Action. Washington, DC, October 14, 2011

Material Matters, invited presentation. Teagle Workshop: "What is a reader?" Berkeley, June 9, 2011

Publishing in Chains: Scholarly serials, supply chains, and certification. Keynote address, NASIG, St Louis, June 4, 2011

Marks for Knowledge: Property and perpetuity. Business History Conference, St Louis, April 1, 2011

Stabilizing Information. I-School Conference, Seattle, February 9 2011

California Marking. Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference, Berkeley, Feb 20, 2011 Stabilizing Information. I-School Conference, Seattle, February 9 2011

The World According to Grep. Invited presentation, Why Books? Radcliffe Institute, Harvard, October 29, 2010

To Your Marks: Aspects of Pharmaceutical History in the Trademarks Registers, 1860-1900. Pharmaceuticals in Historical Context, Madison, WI, Oct 23, 2010

Marques Frontières. Aegis Seminar, École Polytechnique, Paris, Sept 10, 2010

Trade Marks, Innovation, and the Union Label, "A New Kind of Property," Trade Mark Workshop, York, UK, November 19, 2009

C is for .... D is for Digitize Conference, New York University Law School, October 9, 2009

To Your Marks; Trade Marks in the Evolution of Modern Pharmaceutical Marketing, with Teresa da Silva Lopes. Association of Business Historians Conference, Liverpool, Friday July 3, 2009

Marksmanship: Service Marks and Union Labels. Business History Conference/European Business History Association, Milan, June 12, 2009

Books in Chains. The Coulter Lecture. California Library Association. San José, November 16, 2008

The World According to Grep. Deep Search, World Information Forum Conference, Vienna, November 8, 2008

The World According to Grep. Readex Digital Institute, October 9, 2008

Transactions and Iterations: Preliminary Reflections on 100 Years of Trade Mark Registration Data. European Business History Conference, Bergen, August 23, 2008

Call This Progress? The Uncertain Path of US Trade Mark Law and Practice in the Nineteenth Century. Business History Conference, Sacramento, April 11, 2008

Driving or Driven? A View from the Other Side of the Counter/Keyboard. Innovative Interfaces, Oakland CA, March 26, 2008.

An Open or Shut Debate? The Culture of Web 2.0 in Historical Context. The ISI Samuel Lazerow Lecture, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, March 6, 2008

Coming Together or Pulling Apart: W(h)ither Web 2.0? Innovative Interfaces, Directors' Symposium, Oakland, CA, March 6, 2008.

Community of Practice as Wonderwort. Professorial Inaugural Lecture, Queen Mary, University of London, January 22, 2008

Morbid Symptoms: The Reconstruction of Authority in the Digital World. Invited Panel, American Association of Law Libraries, New York, January 4, 2008

The French Connection: A Prehistory of Trade Marks. Association of Business Historians, Wolverhampton, UK, June 30, 2007

Beyond the Page: Questions of Quality & Web 2.0. Society for Scholarly Publishing Keynote. San Francisco, June 7, 2007

Strategies & Law. Trade Marks and British Competitiveness, Queen Mary, University of London, May 11, 2007

Mysteries of the Region: Mapping the Geography of Knowledge. Regions as Reservoirs of Innovation Conference, Lancaster University, April 26, 2007

The Quality of Information: High-tech Supply and Low-tech Command. Palo Alto Research Center, February 22, 2007

What Talking Tells Us. Aegis Seminar, École Polytechnique, November 23, 2006

CoPs: Reflections from 15 Years on the Beat. Communities of Practice: A Driver for Innovation & Competitive Advantage? EU Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe (DIME), Durham, UK, October 27-28, 2006

Experience v. Authority: Open Source and the "Laws of Quality". Berring Symposium: Legal Information and the Development of American Law. Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley, October 20, 2006

The Stamp of Truth: Brands in the Marketplace of Ideas. Society of Scholarly Publishers, Philadelphia, September 8, 2006

Brands in Chains: Hi-Tech Supply, Low-Tech Command. Association of Business Historians, Queen Mary, University of London, June 16-18, 2006

The Douro and Its Wine in the English Imagination. O Douro Contemporaneo, Porto, May 6, 2006

Knowledge in Collaborative Networks. Babson Center for Executive Education, April 27, 2006

Brands in Chains. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, April 7, 2006

The Quality of Information. Taiga Forum, Chicago, March 27, 2006

What Talking Tells Us: Technology, Ethnography, Organization, Knowledge, Bentley College, March 3, 2005

Brands in Chains. American History Association, Philadelphia, January 6, 2006

Brands in Chains: Hi-tech supply, low-tech command. Lancaster University Management School, November 24, 2005

Brands in Chains, Wharton Economic History Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, November 11, 2005

From Gutenberg to Project Gutenberg and Beyond. American Printing History Association, San Francisco, September 22, 2005

The Quality of Information. Tilburg Innovation Centre for Digital Resources, August 28, 2005

The Quality of Information is under Strain? New York Public Library, July 28, 2005

Innovation as Social Practice, Audencia Business School, Nantes, June 2, 2005

The Art of Knowing. Inaugural AEGIS Seminar, École Polytechnique, May 21, 2005 Innovation as Social Practice. Lancaster University Management School, May 9, 2005

Questions of Quality: Wisdom in the Age of Digital Information, Academic Assembly, Cornell University Library, May 5, 2005

Limits to Community: CoPs after Fifteen Years on the Beat. Closing keynote. Organisational Knowledge and Learning Conference (OKLC), Boston, March 19, 2005

Community of Practice: The Life of a Concept. IKON/EBK Seminar, Warwick Business School, Warwick, UK, March 7, 2005

Information Commons, Opening of Prescott College Libary and Information Commons, Prescott College, AZ, Feb 17, 2005

Hi-Tech Supply, Low Tech Command: Brand in the PC Supply Chain. Learning Alliance, Center for Science, Technology, & Society, Santa Clara University, January 20, 2005

Innovation, Knowledge, and Dimensions, response to Richard Lester, Séminaire Condor, École Polytechnique, January 10, 2004

The Social Life of Information: Archives from the Other Side of the Counter. Opening Keynote, Society of Archivists, Glasgow, August 31, 2004

The Methuen Treaty in the English Imagination. Association of Business Historians, Nottingham, UK, June 25, 2004

Action at a Distance: The Creation and Recreation of the Port Supply Chain, 1700-1860. Business History Conference, Le Creusot, France, June 18, 2004

Brands and Supply Chains: Information, Institutions, Warrants. Free University, Amsterdam, June 24, 2004

Ars Celare Artem. Keynote presentation, CARL (California Academic and Research Libraries), Pasadena, CA, April 25, 2004

The Methuen Treaty in the English Imagination. Portuguese Studies Program Seminar. Berkeley, April 22, 2004

Seduction of Community. Organizing Practice Symposium (with Jean Lave and Lucy Suchman), Institute for Organizational Sociology, Copenhagen Business School, March 29, 2004

Brands and Supply Chains. Inaugural Lecture. Business History Group, Queen Mary College, University of London, March 17, 2004

Brands and Supply Chains: Governance before and after Chandler. CONDOR (Contradictions et Dynamique des Organisations) Series of GDR, CNRS, Féderation des Recherches sur les Organisations et leur Gestion. École Polytechnique, Paris, November 6, 2003

Incentivizing Practice. Report on "Communities of practice, knowledge work, innovation, economic and organizational theory" prepared for the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of the European Commission, Workshop on "ICTs and Social Capital in the Knowledge Society." Seville, November 4, 2003

Mysteries of the Region. INFOBALT. Vilnius, Lithuania. October 24, 2003

Socializing Information: Archives in the Digital Age. Opening Keynote, Society of American Archivist, Annual Conference, Spotlight on Archives, Los Angeles, CA, August 21, 2003

The Devil is in the Context: Modernization, Transformation, and Legal Information. Opening Keynote, Conference for Law School Computing, Annual Conference, The Devil is in the Details, Duke Law School, June 19, 2003

Socializing Information: Research Libraries from Print to Packets. Opening Keynote, Association of College and Research Librarians, Annual Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 10, 2003

Communities of Practice. Invited Talk, École des Hautes Études, Paris, May 15, 2003

Balancing Acts. Invited Talk for the Faculty of Industrial and Organizational Sociology, Copenhagen Business School, November 5, 2002

Developing the Douro Digital Archive. Invited talk, CEPESE, Vila Real, Portugal, September 26, 2002

Developing the Brand. Association of Business Historians Annual Conference, Reading UK, Thursday June 27, 2002

The Social Place of Information. Invited Talk, SSRC workshop Information Technology & Social Research: Setting the Agenda, Columbia University, New York, June 5, 2002

The Social Life of Information. Public Lecture, Copenhagen Business School, May 23, 2002

Internet, Location, Communities: The Social Life of Knowledge Revisited. Invited talks presented at the workshop Internet & the 21st Century, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2002

The Social Life of Liberal Eduation. Presidential Convocation Series Address, Oberlin College, April 9, 2002

The Social Life of Education. Invited talk presented at the workshop How Universities Think, UCLA, April 4, 2002

Children's Books and the Digital World. Invited talk presented at the Internet Children's Digital Library Opening Workshop, Oakland CA, February 14, 2002

Organizing Knowledge: The Social Life of Learning, Work, and Innovation. Keynote. Managing Organizational Knowledge, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia, January 23, 2002

The Social Space of Information. Opening Keynote. Rethinking Teaching and Learning Spaces for Liberal Arts Colleges: Libraries, Classrooms, Computing and Media Centers. Inaugural Conference of the National Institute for Technology & Library Education. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, January 11, 2002

The Cult of Information. Invited Presentation, Voices of the Commons Workshop, Center for the Public Domain, Marshall, Ca, December 7, 2001 The Social Life of Learning. Invited presentation, Hewlett-Packard Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, December 4, 2001

What Lies Beyond: Education Beyond Information. Invited Keynote, What Lies Beyond, 26th Annual Conference of the California Association for Institutional Research (CAIR), Sacramento, CA, November 15, 2001

Material Matters: Communities of Practice, Knowledge Generation, Material Constraints, and Actor Network Theory. Invited Lecture, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 9, 2001

The Social Space of Information. Invited paper presented at the First Monday conference FM 1 New Definitions: Value, Community Space, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 5, 2001

Partners in Time. Opening Keynote, Forging Library Partnerships in the Networked Age, University of California, Berkeley, November 2, 2001

Informing the Port Wine Systems: 1640-1890. Paper presented on the panel Historical Development of Information Systems for Managing Complex Organizations before 1950. Academy of Management, Washington, DC, August 7, 2001

The Social Space of Information: Special Collections and the Lure of the Local. Invited paper presented at the 42d Annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Conference, American Library Association, San Francisco, CA, June 15, 2001

A Vida Social de Informação e o Vale do Silicio, Opening address, Grandes Esperanças: Economia, Tecnologia e Felicidade: Como os Avanços Económicos e Technológicos Podem Melhorar Nossas Vidas e das Empresas, Instituto Fernand Braudel de Economia Munidal/Fundação Armando Alvares, Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil, April 23-24, 2001

What Do We Know about How People Learn? Opening Keynote, Online Learning: Serving People, Not Technology. Cambridge University, UK, March 27-28, 2001

The Social Life of Legal Information? Law Schools and the Law Library, Opening Keynote, Not A Box but a Window: Law Libraries and Legal Education in a Virtual World, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, February 22-24, 2001

Radical Rupture, Keynote, annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, New Orleans, LA, January 17-19, 2000

The Portuguese in the Port Trade: A Preliminary Investigation, presented at the biennial meetings of the Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social, Porto, Portugal, November 23, 2000

The Social Life of Distance Education, Keynote, Telelearning 2000, Toronto, Canada, October 5, 2000

The Future of the Family Firm, Keynote, Annual Meeting of the Family Firm Institute, Washington DC, October 26, 2000

Organizing Knowledge, Sloan School of Management, October 13, 2000

Invited participant, Rand Conference on the Book and New Technology, Santa Monica, CA, October 5-6, 2000

The Place of Knowledge, invited paper, Berkeley Knowledge Forum, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, September 28, 2000

Developing the Brand: Notes towards a Prehistory of Branding in Wine, presented at the annual meetings of the European Business History Conference, Bordeaux, September 14-16, 2000

The Social Life of Education, Keynote, SUNY (Brockport) faculty retreat, August 24, 2000

Fresh Air (NPR), July 11, 2000

Going Digital, University Business, May 2000

The Social Life of Accreditation. Keynote speech, WASC Annual Conference, San Diego, April 22, 2000

Virtual Communities. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. April 7-8, 2000

The Social Life of Information. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, April 5, 2000

Restoring Community. Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 1-2, 2000

The Bark of the Bourgeoisie. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 17, 1999

Changing of the Guard. Paper presented at the conference on A História do Douro e do Vinho do Porto, Porto, 20-21 September, 1999

Protecting the Marque--from whom? Paper presented at the Santa Marinha conference on the Port Wine Mark, Vila Nova de Gaia, 16-18 September, 1999

Structure and Spontaneity: Knowledge and Organization. Conference on Knowledge-Based Competition: Corporate Education and Knowledge Management, University of São Paolo, Brazil, August 12-13, 1999

Institutional Asymmetries: Economics and Culture in the Development of the Port Wine Market. Symposion de la Asociación Internacional de Historia y Civilización de la Vid y el Vino. El Puerto de Santa María, Spain, 18-20 March, 1999

Technology Transfer & Stolen Knowledge. US Department of Transport, Technology Transfer Workshop, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 26, 1998

Institutions and Organizations, with Teresa Silva Lopes, Business History and New Institutional Theory, Reading, UK, May, 1998

Institutions and Information. UC Riverside Library Symposium, April 14, 1998 Organizing Knowledge, with J.S. Brown, invited paper, Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation: First UC Berkeley Forum on Knowledge and the Firm. University of California, Berkeley, September 29, 1997

Learning from Oz. Keynote address, UC Berkeley Information Futures Conference, San Francisco, September 7, 1997

Institutions and Education. Invited presentation to the American Association of Higher Education, Washington, D.C., March, 1997

University in the Digital Age. Keynote address, U.C. Berkeley faculty workshop on the Future of the University, January, 1997

Stealing Knowledge and Legitimating Theft. Invited paper for the conference The University in the 21st Century: Education in a Borderless World, Singapore, August 13-14, 1966

The Lie of the Land: Considerations of Location in the Régua Fair. Invited paper for the conference História da Vinha e do Vinho no Vale do Douro, Regua & Porto, Portugal. March 22-24, 1996

Negotiating Change: Relations between Town and Country in the Twilight of Portugal's Mercantile System. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Conference Group on Portugal, Manchester, NH, September 28-30, 1995

Looking at the Country from the Town. Paper presented at the conference A História Acolá: Identidades e diferenças na Vida Social do Portugal do Norte, Porto, Portugal, 8-10, December, 1994

Speculations on 'Change: An Anglo-Portuguese Relation. Paper presented at the conference The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance in History (1373-1993), Cambridge, U.K., September, 1993

Dialectics of Design, with J.S. Brown. Invited paper given at the conference Technology and the Future of Work, Stanford University, April, 1990

Education

  MA, English Literature, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, 1980

BA, English Literature and Philosophy, Bristol University, Bristol, England, 1972