Dariusz Jemielniak
Kozminski University, CROW, Faculty Member
- Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Wikipedia Studies, Open Source and Free Software Studies, Open Innovation, Anthropology of Power, Anthropology of Organizations, and 11 moreKnowledge-intensive work, Organizational Archetypes, Organizational Theory, Organizational Culture, Time Perception, Netnography, Internet Studies, Digital Culture, Metody Jakościowe, Action Research, and Zygmunt Baumanedit
- I am a (full) professor of management. I head the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces (here http://cr... moreI am a (full) professor of management. I head the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces (here http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl is its homepage) at Kozminski University, and I co-founded NeRDS (New Research on Digital Societies, http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl) group.
My interests include open collaboration communities, critical management studies, narrativity, storytelling, organizational archetypes, occupational identities, all studied by interpretive and qualitative methods.
Most of my research so far has been evolving around knowledge-intensive workplace, open collaboration, F/LOSS, organizations and professional culture, with particular focus on software development.
Currently, I am working on two projects: one is on lawyers professional identity (I study LLM students in American and European schools), the other is on trust and authority enactment in open-source projects on the example of Wikipedia.
I have some professional experience with managing software project, since I am the founder of a limited liability company, running, among others, the biggest and the most popular Polish online dictionary http://www.ling.pl as well as several other portals (including http://www.angielski.edu.pl or http://www.anglisci.pl or http://www.angool.com - all related to language education for Poles).
I have also been involved as an activist in the Wikimedia movement, and I currently serve on the Funds Dissemination Committee of Wikimedia Foundation.
2000-2004 I was a Ph.D. candidate in management at Kozminski University. 2004-2005 I spent as a Fulbright scholar at Cornell University. 2005-2009 I was an assistant professor of management back at Kozminski University, with an annual break to go for a semester as a visiting scholar to Harvard University (2007) and University of California, Berkeley (2008). In 2009 I defended my habilitation and became an associate professor of management. The academic year 2011-2012 I'm spending at Harvard, studying lawyers and writing up a book on Wikipedia.
I strongly believe that academic work should be interesting and fun, and I serve as the Polish Desk Chief for the Annals of Improbable Research magazine - http://improbable.com/ - more widely known as Ig Nobel Prize granting institution.edit - Andrzej K. Koźmińskiedit
Objective: The aim of the study was to explore community interest in mental health topics during and before the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: We gathered and analysed a large dataset (over 3 billion) of views of 1763 English Wikipedia mental... more
Objective: The aim of the study was to explore community interest
in mental health topics during and before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: We gathered and analysed a large dataset (over 3 billion)
of views of 1763 English Wikipedia mental health articles, and their
counterparts in nine other language versions of Wikipedia, between
the period of January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2020.
Results: The results of this study show that the patterns of
Wikipedia searches during the pandemic changed. Interest in
articles about insecurities and paraphilias increased. There were
more searches for child abuse-related topics. Views for depression
decreased.
Discussion: We hypothesise that during the lockdown and
enforced video communication, people’s concern about selfimage and privacy arose, and the tendency to follow one’s
desires online increased. There may be a possible interaction
between media coverage and the novelty with the saturation of a
given concept in the public discourse. The observations on the
online interests of peers may become a sensitive predictor and
early sign of arising new phenomena and increase of ongoing
public health problems. The results of this study and future indepth research may contribute to providing preventive programs
including screening digital tools, and online apps for early
intervention.
in mental health topics during and before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: We gathered and analysed a large dataset (over 3 billion)
of views of 1763 English Wikipedia mental health articles, and their
counterparts in nine other language versions of Wikipedia, between
the period of January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2020.
Results: The results of this study show that the patterns of
Wikipedia searches during the pandemic changed. Interest in
articles about insecurities and paraphilias increased. There were
more searches for child abuse-related topics. Views for depression
decreased.
Discussion: We hypothesise that during the lockdown and
enforced video communication, people’s concern about selfimage and privacy arose, and the tendency to follow one’s
desires online increased. There may be a possible interaction
between media coverage and the novelty with the saturation of a
given concept in the public discourse. The observations on the
online interests of peers may become a sensitive predictor and
early sign of arising new phenomena and increase of ongoing
public health problems. The results of this study and future indepth research may contribute to providing preventive programs
including screening digital tools, and online apps for early
intervention.
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Higher education around the world is currently undergoing a neo-liberal administrative takeover. The drive to reduce costs and increased bureaucratization do not serve any other purpose than increasing the power of the universities’... more
Higher education around the world is currently undergoing a neo-liberal administrative takeover. The drive to reduce costs and increased bureaucratization do not serve any other purpose than increasing the power of the universities’ administration. The reasons for allowing this situation to happen are related to scholars’ inertia and subscribing to a belief that academia can and should be impractical. As a result, the emerging corporate university, McDonaldized model relies increasingly on contingent and deskilled faculty, effectively eliminating the traditional academic freedoms. We conclude with suggestions for possible courses of action to make a constructive counter-movement to the radical changes taking place. We propose that we can begin addressing the predicaments of higher education through re-discovering our role in the society, by re-conceptualizing the disciplinary boundaries of academic fields, by forcing the de-bunkerization of academic career and work, and by starting ...
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Urgent global research demands real-time dissemination of precise data. Wikidata, a collaborative and openly licensed knowledge graph available in RDF format, provides an ideal forum for exchanging structured data that can be verified and... more
Urgent global research demands real-time dissemination of precise data. Wikidata, a collaborative and openly licensed knowledge graph available in RDF format, provides an ideal forum for exchanging structured data that can be verified and consolidated using validation schemas and bot edits. In this research paper, we catalog an automatable task set necessary to assess and validate the portion of Wikidata relating to the COVID-19 disease, its causative virus, and key aspects of the resulting pandemic. These tasks assess relational and statistical data and are implemented in SPARQL, a query language for semantic databases. We demonstrate the efficiency of our methods for evaluating structured information on COVID-19 in Wikidata, and its applicability in collaborative ontologies and knowledge graphs more broadly. We show the advantages and limitations of our proposed approach by comparing it to other methods for validation of linked web data.
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Zero Waste (ZW) is a relatively new concept of waste reduction, which encourages life cycle thinking in the design of new products and services. Today ZW is becoming a lifestyle trend and social media amplifies this trend and helps to... more
Zero Waste (ZW) is a relatively new concept of waste reduction, which encourages life cycle thinking in the design of new products and services. Today ZW is becoming a lifestyle trend and social media amplifies this trend and helps to propagate the movement. The popularisation of the ZW concept through social media can be attributed to Bea Johnson, author of a bestselling book on ZW living. Many tips on how to achieve ZW living in Bea Johnson's book refer to food packaging and packaging materials, and literature shows that global consumers are increasingly concerned about the negative environmental impacts of packaging waste. Given the popularity of ZW lifestyle in social media, this study explores the ZW trend as reported by users of the popular social media platform Twitter through the lens of Bea Johnson's ZW living model, taking into consideration the public concern on packaging and packaging materials. For the purposes of this paper, Twitter discourse on ZW is used to draw conclusions on the popular understanding of its impact and effects. This paper uses Thick Big Data study of the collected 124,077 tweets with #zerowaste hashtag. In the study, it was found that majority of popular tweets with #zerowaste hashtag refer to packaging and food packaging. The majority of tweets focused on plastics, and the sentiment of this packaging material was negative. Other packaging materials found in #zerowaste hashtag tweets include paper, glass and metal, and the sentiment for those materials is gradually more positive.
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This study explores firm responses to stakeholder-initiated involuntary disclosures, which are disclosures made by stakeholders about an organization but are against the will of managers, and subsequent stakeholder reactions. We analyzed... more
This study explores firm responses to stakeholder-initiated involuntary disclosures, which are disclosures made by stakeholders about an organization but are against the will of managers, and subsequent stakeholder reactions. We analyzed 134,977 firm Twitter replies from seven companies to identify their responses to involuntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures and find that companies demonstrate different attitudes toward engagement in the exchange about involuntary disclosures. Whereas some companies communicate with stakeholders, others are almost silent. When a company engages in communication with its stakeholders, the communication is mostly one-way, and mortification or dissent is the likely response strategy. We also find that while stakeholders generally do not continue to engage with corporate communications, they are likely to respond when companies deny the information revealed by involuntary disclosure. Our results suggest that involuntary disclosures on social media are not able to improve communication between stakeholders and companies.
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The authors wanted to verify a popular belief that women scholars have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We studied the first names of authors of 266,409 articles from 2813 journals in 21 disciplines, and we found... more
The authors wanted to verify a popular belief that women scholars have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We studied the first names of authors of 266,409 articles from 2813 journals in 21 disciplines, and we found no significant differences between men and women in publication patterns between 2021, 2020, and 2019 overall. However, we found significant differences in publication patterns between gender in different disciplines. In addition, in disciplines where the proportion of women authors is higher, there are fewer single-authored articles. In the multi-author articles if the first author is female, there is more gender balance among authors, although there are still fewer women co-authors.
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As Godwin's Law states, "as a discussion on the Internet grows longer, the likelihood of a person being compared to Hitler, or another Nazi reference, increases." However, even though the theoretical probability of an infinitely long... more
As Godwin's Law states, "as a discussion on the Internet grows longer, the likelihood of a person being compared to Hitler, or another Nazi reference, increases." However, even though the theoretical probability of an infinitely long conversation including any term should approach 1.0, in practice, conversations cannot be infinite in length, and this long-accepted axiom is impossible to observe. By analyzing 199 million Reddit posts, we note that, after a certain point, the probability of observing the terms "Nazi" or "Hitler" actually decreases significantly with conversation length. In addition, a corollary of Godwin's Law holds that "the invocation of Godwin's Law is usually done by an individual that is losing the argument," and, thus, that comparisons to Nazis are a signal of a discussion's end. In other words, comparing one's interlocutor to Hitler is supposed to be a conversation-killer. While it is difficult to determine whether a discussion on a given topic ended or not in a large dataset, we observe a marked increase
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As Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) increases in importance and use by global corporations, understanding the dynamics of its communities becomes critical. This paper measures up to 21 years of activities in 1314 individual projects... more
As Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) increases in importance and use by global corporations, understanding the dynamics of its communities becomes critical. This paper measures up to 21 years of activities in 1314 individual projects and 1.4 billion lines of code managed. After analyzing the FOSS activities on the projects and organizations level, such as commits frequency, source code lines, and code comments, we find that there is less activity now than there was a decade ago. Moreover, our results suggest a greater decrease in the activities in large and well-established FOSS organizations. Our findings indicate that as technologies and business strategies related to FOSS mature, the role of large formal FOSS organizations serving as intermediary between developers diminishes.
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From 50,080 tweets in the English language, we analysed the linked media sources and conducted a network detection study. Results: We found that the most frequently retweeted tweets were full of negative information, and in many cases... more
From 50,080 tweets in the English language, we analysed the linked media sources and conducted a network detection study. Results: We found that the most frequently retweeted tweets were full of negative information, and in many cases came from media sources that are well-known for misinformation. Our analysis identified large coordination networks involved in political astroturfing and vaccine diplomacy in South Asia but also vaccine advocacy networks associated with European Commission employees. Conclusions: The results of this study show that Twitter discourse about #AstraZeneca is filled with misinformation and bad press, and may be distributed not only organically by anti-vaxxer activists but also systematically by professional sources.
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In this study, we explore two parallel networks of discourse during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations of 2019 in Madrid (25th Conference of the Parties, COP25): one produced by news media... more
In this study, we explore two parallel networks of discourse during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations of 2019 in Madrid (25th Conference of the Parties, COP25): one produced by news media coverage of the talks; the other by Twitter users who shared news content about the talks. Findings show that transnational public spheres can emerge out of relatively homogeneous moments internal to networks and external to networks (i.e. across multiple networks) at the intersection of certain actors and topics, cultural practices, and commercial and non-commercial (state) institutions. Yet there are persistent divisions along language, geographic, and other lines that encourage the formation of distinct micro-spheres of networked actors (internal heterogeneity), as well as distinct media practices that work to differentiate mass media networks from networks produced by a different set of publics on social media (external heterogeneity).
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Background. – In an experiment conducted in a natural setting, we test the link between mimicry, the amount of time during which the mimicry behavior takes place, and its impact on service quality. Methods. – Cable TV clients (n = 120)... more
Background. – In an experiment conducted in a natural setting, we test the link between mimicry, the amount of time during which the mimicry behavior takes place, and its impact on service quality.
Methods. – Cable TV clients (n = 120) were randomly assigned to six experimental conditions (2 mimicry conditions: verbal mimicry vs. no mimicry x 3 interaction time: 5 vs. 10 vs. 15 minutes). Perceived service
quality served as the dependent measurement.
Results. – A main effect of mimicry was found on service quality: a cable TV representative was perceived more favorably when he mimicked the customer. Importantly, it was shown that even small portions of mimicry are beneficial, meaning that practitioners do not have to mimic someone for a long time to achieve benefits.
Conclusion. – The paper shows new benefits for the mimicker: more positive judgments by the mimickee regarding the impact on several different levels of service quality.
Methods. – Cable TV clients (n = 120) were randomly assigned to six experimental conditions (2 mimicry conditions: verbal mimicry vs. no mimicry x 3 interaction time: 5 vs. 10 vs. 15 minutes). Perceived service
quality served as the dependent measurement.
Results. – A main effect of mimicry was found on service quality: a cable TV representative was perceived more favorably when he mimicked the customer. Importantly, it was shown that even small portions of mimicry are beneficial, meaning that practitioners do not have to mimic someone for a long time to achieve benefits.
Conclusion. – The paper shows new benefits for the mimicker: more positive judgments by the mimickee regarding the impact on several different levels of service quality.
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The aim of the study was to explore the impact of peer-reviewed psychology journals on Wikipedia articles. We are presenting a rank of academic journals classified as pertaining to psychology, most cited on Wikipedia, as well as a rank of... more
The aim of the study was to explore the impact of peer-reviewed psychology journals on Wikipedia articles. We are presenting a rank of academic journals classified as pertaining to psychology, most cited on Wikipedia, as well as a rank of general-themed academic journals that were most frequently referenced in Wikipedia entries related to psychology. We then compare the list to journals that are considered most prestigious according to the SciMago journal rank score. Additionally, we describe the time trajectories of the knowledge transfer from the moment of the publication of an article to its citation in Wikipedia. We propose that the citation rate on Wikipedia, next to the traditional citation index, may be a good indicator of the work's impact in the field of psychology. Keywords psychology journals citations, Wikipedia, psychology in online media, publication impact Journal quality and rankings have been a topic of recurring debates in psychology research (Mayor, 2010; Paulus et al., 2018).
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We review 100 articles published from 2000 to early 2020 that research aspects of vaccine hesitancy in online communication spaces and identify several gaps in the literature prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. These gaps relate to five... more
We review 100 articles published from 2000 to early 2020 that research aspects of vaccine hesitancy in online communication spaces and identify several gaps in the literature prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. These gaps relate to five areas: disciplinary focus; specific vaccine, condition, or disease focus; stakeholders and implications; research methodology; and geographical coverage. Our findings show that we entered the global pandemic vaccination effort without a thorough understanding of how levels of confidence and hesitancy might differ across conditions and vaccines, geographical areas, and platforms, or how they might change over time. In addition, little was known about the role of platforms, platforms' politics, and specific sociotechnical affordances in the spread of vaccine hesitancy and the associated issue of misinformation online.
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Contrary to a popular belief of lawyers having the most strict perception of law, law professionals actually strongly skew toward more favorable views of digital sharing. According to our qualitative study, relying on in-depth interviews... more
Contrary to a popular belief of lawyers having the most strict perception of law, law professionals actually strongly skew toward more favorable views of digital sharing. According to our qualitative study, relying on in-depth interviews with 50 Harvard lawyers, digital piracy is quite acceptable. It is considered fair, especially among friends and for noncommercial purposes. We argue that this not only can indicate that the existing law is becoming outdated because of its inability to be enforced, but also that ethically it is not corresponding to what is considered fair, good service, or being societally beneficial. The common perception of relying on a fixed price for digital content is eroding. We show that on the verges of business, society, and law, there is a potential for the new paradigm of digital commons to emerge.
Based on a computational analysis of a large dataset, this study explores if there is a significant longevity effect of intercessory prayer for a named individual's well-being, if he receives a very high number of prayers per annum for an... more
Based on a computational analysis of a large dataset, this study explores if there is a significant longevity effect of intercessory prayer for a named individual's well-being, if he receives a very high number of prayers per annum for an extended period. We relied on an observational cohort study, based on data from 1988 to 2018, including 857 Roman Catholic bishops, 500 Catholic priests, and 3038 male academics from six countries. We measured the covariance of the mean length of life, controlled for nationality. It was found that there is a main effect for occupation F(2, 4391) = 4.07, p = 0.017, η p 2 = 0.002, with pairwise comparisons indicating significant differences between the mean life duration of bishops (M = 30,489) and of priests (M = 29,894), but none between the academic teachers (M = 30,147) and either of the other groups. A comparison analysis between bishops from the largest and the smallest dioceses showed no significant difference t(67.31) = 1.61, p = 0.11. The first analysis proved that bishops live longer than priests, but due to a marginal effect size this result should be treated with caution. No difference was found between the mean length of life of bishops from the largest and the smallest dioceses.
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Background: In the current era of widespread access to the internet, we can monitor public interest in a topic via information-targeted web browsing. We sought to provide direct proof of the global population's altered use of Wikipedia... more
Background: In the current era of widespread access to the internet, we can monitor public interest in a topic via information-targeted web browsing. We sought to provide direct proof of the global population's altered use of Wikipedia medical knowledge resulting from the new COVID-19 pandemic and related global restrictions.
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Information related to the COVID-19 pandemic ranges from biological to bibliographic, from geographical to genetic and beyond. The structure of the raw data is highly complex, so converting it to meaningful insight requires data curation,... more
Information related to the COVID-19 pandemic ranges from biological to bibliographic, from geographical to genetic and beyond. The structure of the raw data is highly complex, so converting it to meaningful insight requires data curation, integration, extraction and visualization, the global crowdsourcing of which provides both additional challenges and opportunities. Wikidata is an interdisciplinary, multilingual, open collaborative knowledge base of more than 90 million entities connected by well over a billion relationships. It acts as a web-scale platform for broader computer-supported cooperative work and linked open data, since it can be written to and queried in multiple ways in near real time by specialists, automated tools and the public. The main query language, SPARQL, is a semantic language used to retrieve and process information from databases saved in Resource Description Framework (RDF) format. Here, we introduce four aspects of Wikidata that enable it to serve as a knowledge base for general information on the COVID-19 pandemic: its flexible data model, its multilingual features, its alignment to multiple external databases, and its multidisciplinary organization. The rich knowledge graph created for COVID-19 in Wikidata can be visualized, explored, and analyzed for purposes like decision support as well as educational and scholarly research.
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Background: AIDS, caused by HIV, is a leading cause of mortality in Africa. HIV/AIDS is among the greatest public health challenges confronting health authorities, with South Africa having the greatest prevalence of the disease in the... more
Background: AIDS, caused by HIV, is a leading cause of mortality in Africa. HIV/AIDS is among the greatest public health challenges confronting health authorities, with South Africa having the greatest prevalence of the disease in the world. There is little research into how Africans meet their health information needs on HIV/AIDS online, and this research gap impacts programming and educational responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Objective: This paper reports on how, in general, interest in the search terms "HIV" and "AIDS" mirrors the increase in people living with HIV and the decline in AIDS cases in South Africa. Methods: Data on search trends for HIV and AIDS for South Africa were found using the search terms "HIV" and "AIDS" (categories: health, web search) on Google Trends. This was compared with data on estimated adults and children living with HIV, and AIDS-related deaths in South Africa, from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and also with search interest in the topics "HIV" and "AIDS" on Wikipedia Afrikaans, the most developed local language Wikipedia service in South Africa. Nonparametric statistical tests were conducted to support the trends and associations identified in the data. Results: Google Trends shows a statistically significant decline (P<.001) in search interest for AIDS relative to HIV in South Africa. This trend mirrors progress on the ground in South Africa and is significantly associated (P<.001) with a decline in AIDS-related deaths and people living longer with HIV. This trend was also replicated on Wikipedia Afrikaans, where there was a greater interest in HIV than AIDS. Conclusions: This statistically significant (P<.001) association between interest in the search terms "HIV" and "AIDS" in South Africa (2004-2019) and the number of people living with HIV and AIDS in the country (2004-2019) might be an indicator that multilateral efforts at combating HIV/AIDS-particularly through awareness raising and behavioral interventions in South Africa-are bearing fruit, and this is not only evident on the ground, but is also reflected in the online information seeking on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We acknowledge the limitation that in studying the association between Google search interests on HIV/AIDS and cases/deaths, causal relationships should not be drawn due to the limitations of the data.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of a qualitative study of software engineers' playful behaviors at work.Design/methodology/approachThe interviewed software engineers come from two European and three American... more
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of a qualitative study of software engineers' playful behaviors at work.Design/methodology/approachThe interviewed software engineers come from two European and three American companies. The research is based on ethnographical data, gathered in two longitudinal studies 2005‐2008. The methods used in the study include open‐ended unstructured interviews, participant observations, stories collection, and shadowings.FindingsIt is found that the currently dominant theory of normative control explaining software engineers workplace diminishes leisure and entertainment attributes of knowledge work. Fun at workplace is discovered to be an important, if not crucial, element of everyday programmers' job.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the literature by replying to the call for more research on high‐tech organizational practices, and on non‐job related behaviors at workplace. It reveals playful performance as a consti...
Research Interests: Management, Marketing, Sociology, Play, Organizational Culture, and 15 moreCreative Problem Solving, Qualitative Research, Philosophy of Time, Knowledge Management in Software Engineering, Anthropology of Time, Knowledge Work, Corporate culture, Business and Management, Organizational, Design Methodology, Qualitative Study, Participant Observation, Organizational Change management, Longitudinal Study, and Data Gathering
In this article, we draw on a survey conducted with elite upcoming lawyers from all around the world to shed new light on the ethical acceptability of file sharing practices. Although file sharing is typically illegal, our findings show... more
In this article, we draw on a survey conducted with elite upcoming lawyers from all around the world to shed new light on the ethical acceptability of file sharing practices. Although file sharing is typically illegal, our findings show that lawyers overwhelmingly perceive it as an acceptable social practice. The main criterion used by lawyers to decide on the ethical acceptability of file sharing is whether or not the infringer derives any monetary benefits from it. Further, our findings show that lawyers in the public sector (including judiciary and academia) are even more tolerant of online copyright infringement than those in the private sector. Interestingly, our data suggests that this is largely the result of self-selection: lawyers who lean more on the side of broad disclosure and social sharing tend to orient themselves toward the public sector. Implications for the current state of the debate on the reform of copyright law are discussed.
Research Interests: Sociology of Law, Information Society, Legal Profession, Legal Culture, Social Study of Information & Communication Technology, and 10 moreLegal Ethics, Social Study of Information and Communication Technology, Piracy, Digital Piracy/ Filesharing, Information Sharing, File Sharing, Legal Ethics/professional Responsibility, Sharing, Digital Sociology, and Sharing Economy
Wikipedia is by far the largest online encyclopedia, and the number of errors it contains is on par with the professional sources even in specialized topics such as biology or medicine. Yet, the academic world is still treating it with... more
Wikipedia is by far the largest online encyclopedia, and the number of errors it contains is on par with the professional sources even in specialized topics such as biology or medicine. Yet, the academic world is still treating it with great skepticism because of the types of inaccuracies present there, the widespread plagiarism from Wikipedia, and historic biases, as well as jealousy regarding the loss of the knowledge dissemination monopoly. This article argues that it is high time not only to acknowledge Wikipedia's quality but also to start actively promoting its use and development in academia.
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Purpose-This article is devoted to conditions and examples of how theories may be applied as methods in the fields of management research and organization studies. Design/methodology/approach-An introduction to minimum requirements for a... more
Purpose-This article is devoted to conditions and examples of how theories may be applied as methods in the fields of management research and organization studies. Design/methodology/approach-An introduction to minimum requirements for a successful refunctionalization of theory as method as well as to nine contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Change Management on "Theory as method" is provided. Findings-The review of these nine cases suggests that the use of theories as methods is not necessarily harmful for the former, and particularly not for the more robust among them. Originality/value-This article sheds new light on the value of theoretical monism or loyalty and calls for a reassessment of the relative value of expertise in a specific research field, method and or theory.
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In this tutorial, we show how to scrape and collect online data, perform sentiment analysis, social network analysis, tribe finding, and Wikidata cross-checks, all without using a single line of programming code. In a step-by-step... more
In this tutorial, we show how to scrape and collect online data, perform sentiment analysis, social network
analysis, tribe finding, and Wikidata cross-checks, all without using a single line of programming code. In a step-by-step example, we use self-collected data to perform several analyses of the glass ceiling. Our tutorial can serve as a standalone introduction to data science for qualitative researchers and business researchers, who have avoided learning to program. It should also be useful for experienced data scientists who want to learn about the tools that will allow them to collect and analyze data more easily and effectively.
analysis, tribe finding, and Wikidata cross-checks, all without using a single line of programming code. In a step-by-step example, we use self-collected data to perform several analyses of the glass ceiling. Our tutorial can serve as a standalone introduction to data science for qualitative researchers and business researchers, who have avoided learning to program. It should also be useful for experienced data scientists who want to learn about the tools that will allow them to collect and analyze data more easily and effectively.
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Background: Wikipedia, the multilingual encyclopedia, was founded in 2001 and is the world’s largest and most visited online general reference website. It is widely used by health care professionals and students. The inclusion of journal... more
Background: Wikipedia, the multilingual encyclopedia, was founded in 2001 and is the world’s largest and most visited online
general reference website. It is widely used by health care professionals and students. The inclusion of journal articles in Wikipedia
is of scholarly interest, but the time taken for a journal article to be included in Wikipedia, from the moment of its publication to
its incorporation into Wikipedia, is unclear.
Objective: We aimed to determine the ranking of the most cited journals by their representation in the English-language medical
pages of Wikipedia. In addition, we evaluated the number of days between publication of journal articles and their citation in
Wikipedia medical pages, treating this measure as a proxy for the information-diffusion rate.
Methods: We retrieved the dates when articles were included in Wikipedia and the date of journal publication from Crossref
by using an application programming interface.
Results: From 11,325 Wikipedia medical articles, we identified citations to 137,889 journal articles from over 15,000 journals.
There was a large spike in the number of journal articles published in or after 2002 that were cited by Wikipedia. The higher the
importance of a Wikipedia article, the higher was the mean number of journal citations it contained (top article, 48.13 [SD 33.67];
lowest article, 6.44 [SD 9.33]). However, the importance of the Wikipedia article did not affect the speed of reference addition.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews was the most cited journal by Wikipedia, followed by The New England Journal
of Medicine and The Lancet. The multidisciplinary journals Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences were among the top 10 journals with the highest Wikipedia medical article citations. For the top biomedical journal
papers cited in Wikipedia's medical pages in 2016-2017, it took about 90 days (3 months) for the citation to be used in Wikipedia.
Conclusions: We found evidence of “recentism,” which refers to preferential citation of recently published journal articles in
Wikipedia. Traditional high-impact medical and multidisciplinary journals were extensively cited by Wikipedia, suggesting that
Wikipedia medical articles have robust underpinnings. In keeping with the Wikipedia policy of citing reviews/secondary sources
in preference to primary sources, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews was the most referenced journal.
general reference website. It is widely used by health care professionals and students. The inclusion of journal articles in Wikipedia
is of scholarly interest, but the time taken for a journal article to be included in Wikipedia, from the moment of its publication to
its incorporation into Wikipedia, is unclear.
Objective: We aimed to determine the ranking of the most cited journals by their representation in the English-language medical
pages of Wikipedia. In addition, we evaluated the number of days between publication of journal articles and their citation in
Wikipedia medical pages, treating this measure as a proxy for the information-diffusion rate.
Methods: We retrieved the dates when articles were included in Wikipedia and the date of journal publication from Crossref
by using an application programming interface.
Results: From 11,325 Wikipedia medical articles, we identified citations to 137,889 journal articles from over 15,000 journals.
There was a large spike in the number of journal articles published in or after 2002 that were cited by Wikipedia. The higher the
importance of a Wikipedia article, the higher was the mean number of journal citations it contained (top article, 48.13 [SD 33.67];
lowest article, 6.44 [SD 9.33]). However, the importance of the Wikipedia article did not affect the speed of reference addition.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews was the most cited journal by Wikipedia, followed by The New England Journal
of Medicine and The Lancet. The multidisciplinary journals Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences were among the top 10 journals with the highest Wikipedia medical article citations. For the top biomedical journal
papers cited in Wikipedia's medical pages in 2016-2017, it took about 90 days (3 months) for the citation to be used in Wikipedia.
Conclusions: We found evidence of “recentism,” which refers to preferential citation of recently published journal articles in
Wikipedia. Traditional high-impact medical and multidisciplinary journals were extensively cited by Wikipedia, suggesting that
Wikipedia medical articles have robust underpinnings. In keeping with the Wikipedia policy of citing reviews/secondary sources
in preference to primary sources, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews was the most referenced journal.
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This article explores the relationship between linguistic culture and the preferred standards of presenting information based on article representation in major Wikipe-dias. Using primary research analysis of the number of images,... more
This article explores the relationship between linguistic culture and the preferred standards of presenting information based on article representation in major Wikipe-dias. Using primary research analysis of the number of images, references, internal links, external links, words, and characters, as well as their proportions in Good and Featured articles on the eight largest Wikipedias, we discover a high diversity of approaches and format preferences , correlating with culture. We demonstrate that high-quality standards in information presentation are not globally shared and that in many aspects, the language culture's influence determines what is perceived to be proper, desirable, and exemplary for encyclopedic entries. As a result, we demonstrate that standards for encyclopedic knowledge are not globally agreed-upon and " objective " but local and very subjective.
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PurposeThis article is devoted to conditions and examples of how theories may be applied as methods in the fields of management research and organization studies.Design/methodology/approachAn introduction to minimum requirements for a... more
PurposeThis article is devoted to conditions and examples of how theories may be applied as methods in the fields of management research and organization studies.Design/methodology/approachAn introduction to minimum requirements for a successful refunctionalization of theory as method as well as to nine contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Change Management on “Theory as method” is provided.FindingsThe review of these nine cases suggests that the use of theories as methods is not necessarily harmful for the former, and particularly not for the more robust among them.Originality/valueThis article sheds new light on the value of theoretical monism or loyalty and calls for a reassessment of the relative value of expertise in a specific research field, method and or theory.
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Research Interests: Business Administration, Sociology, Anthropology, Organizational Theory, Ethnography, and 14 moreQualitative methodology, Qualitative Methods, Narratology, Storytelling, Qualitative Research, Qualitative Research Methods, Narratives, Business and Management, Methodological Errors, Social Context, Irony, Research Method, Qualitative Study, and Anthropological failures
Prezentowany artykuł ma na celu przybliżenie metody etnografii wirtualnej (netnografii) polskim naukowcom z dyscypliny nauk o organizacji i zarządzaniu. Opisuje podstawowe problemy, na jakie napotykają osoby zajmujące się antropologią... more
Prezentowany artykuł ma na celu przybliżenie metody etnografii wirtualnej (netnografii) polskim naukowcom z dyscypliny nauk o organizacji i zarządzaniu. Opisuje podstawowe problemy, na jakie napotykają osoby zajmujące się antropologią organizacji, gdy przystępują do badań online. Dotyczą one kulturowej różnorodności społeczności wirtualnych, niefundamentalnych różnic między etnografią wirtualną a tradycyjną, specyfiki interakcji, „tubylczości”, kłopotów z przeprowadzaniem obserwacji, antropologiczną refleksyjnością, a także tematów zaufania i tożsamości społecznej.
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Wstęp do podręcznika &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Badania jakościowe: Metody i narzędzia&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; przybliża kwestię zróżnicowania i wielości... more
Wstęp do podręcznika &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Badania jakościowe: Metody i narzędzia&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; przybliża kwestię zróżnicowania i wielości narzędzi w metodach jakościowych i podstawowych rozróżnień szkół i podejść w badaniach jakościowych.
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... J. Pankiewicza 3 www.waip.com.pl Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego 03-301 Warszawa ul. Jagiellońska 57/59 www.kozminski.edu.pl Page 4. ... Jednym ze współczesnych myślicieli, którzy zabierali głos na te-mat pracy był również między innymi Jan Paweł II. ...
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The article draws attention to the multidirectional impact of the widespread Internet communication on public involvement in risk govern-ance processes. The prevalence of Internet communication changes the rules of building credibility... more
The article draws attention to the multidirectional impact of the widespread Internet communication on public involvement in risk govern-ance processes. The prevalence of Internet communication changes the rules of building credibility and trust, and a position of expert knowledge. As online peer-to-peer information are not verified by any single trustworthy institution, the expert community often perceives it as a source of disturbance in risk governance. We refuse to frame online communication simply in terms of a threat to responsible dealing with risks and, instead, demonstrate how it creates new conditions for public involvement in risk governance, which may strengthen or hamper responsible risk governance, potentially compensating for the shortcomings of the system based solely on state agencies' activities. Basing on the qualitative analysis of three critical cases, we show how the involvement of Internet-enabled groups impacts the risk governance of specific issues in Poland. Specifically, the Internet-enabled participation amplifies evidence-based concerns (the case of city air pollution), signals new "unknown unknowns" (the case of fracking), or weakens procedures based on the body of scientific knowledge (the case of vaccination controversy). To decide when and how to harness the potential of internet-enabled public involvement and when to focus on limiting the harms it may engender, we propose a framework that takes into account the level of uncertainty, the extent to which risk mitigation policy in place reflects the scientific consensus (if there is one), and the accepted rules of credibility and trust by Internet-enabled groups to expert knowledge. We claim that risk governance processes should routinely involve analyses and actions aimed at governing risks that ignore the impact of widespread Internet use may prove counter-effective. ARTICLE HISTORY
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In the paper, we propose a new focus in qualitative organization studies, which we call organizational anecdotal evidence. The novelty of our method is in linking storytelling, studies of organizational anecdotes, and humor studies. We... more
In the paper, we propose a new focus in qualitative organization studies, which we call organizational anecdotal evidence. The novelty of our method is in linking storytelling, studies of organizational anecdotes, and humor studies. We claim that organizational anecdotes, jokes and short fictional stories should become a core object of organizational culture analysis , rather than be refuted as unimportant. This is so because the study of organizational anecdotes and fictional stories shared by the social actors is more meaningful and gives more insight into their culture than establishing mere facts. In the article, we briefly relate the limitations of factual studies in many areas of organizational research, describe the theoretical background of our method (coming from humor studies, storytelling, and organizational anecdotes analysis), and propose their combination as a new approach for organization scholars, namely, organizational anecdotal evidence research. The utility of the proposed methodological approach is demonstrated based on original research conducted in a public administration organization.
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This paper is an ethnographic research note, reporting an edit war on WIkipedia related to the article about "glass ceiling". By describing the events in details, it allows to understand the background for gender inequality, as well as... more
This paper is an ethnographic research note, reporting an edit war on WIkipedia related to the article about "glass ceiling". By describing the events in details, it allows to understand the background for gender inequality, as well as editor power imbalance on Wikipedia better.
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In this opinion piece, we would like to present a short literature review of perceptions and reservations towards Wikipedia in academia, address the common questions about overall reliability of Wikipedia entries, review the actual... more
In this opinion piece, we would like to present a short literature review of perceptions and reservations towards Wikipedia in academia, address the common questions about overall reliability of Wikipedia entries, review the actual practices of Wikipedia usage in academia, and conclude with possible scenarios for a peaceful coexistence. Because Wikipedia is a regular topic of JASIST publications (Lim, 2009; Meseguer-Artola, Aibar, Llados, Minguillon, & Lerga, 2015; Mesgari, Okoli, Mehdi, Nielsen, & Lanamaki, 2015; Okoli, Mehdi, Mesgari, Nielsen, &
Lanamaki, 2014, we hope to start a useful discussion with the right audience.
Lanamaki, 2014, we hope to start a useful discussion with the right audience.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the limits of a-hierarchical organization in the Wikimedia movement governance model. Wikimedia governance, as well as the dynamic transformations it is currently undergoing, remains to be... more
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the limits of a-hierarchical organization in the Wikimedia movement governance model. Wikimedia governance, as well as the dynamic transformations it is currently undergoing, remains to be covered by the literature on organization and management studies; yet, they exemplify the problems with the " organization of the future, " which is highly idealized throughout the management literature.
Design/methodology/approach – The research design relies on an ethnographic, long-term, participative study of the Wikipedia community at large. The methods used rely mainly on discourse analysis and interviews. The study benefits from the unique participant immersion of the researcher (who spent six years participating in the studied community, making over five edits each day on average, and being elected to several positions of highest trust within the organization).
Findings – The findings show that the open, participative, and democratic character of the organization, which in theory is oriented toward sustainable solidarity, as well as the semi-anonymous character of some of the members' identities, makes the community more empowered yet more belligerent. Also, the entirely open and flat governance model makes it more difficult to establish a stable leadership consensus.
Research limitations/implications – Research is limited due to its methodological design, as it relies on in-depth qualitative case studies, rather than wider analysis. Further quantitative research is needed to confirm the findings on a bigger scale and in other open collaboration organizations. Practical implications – The findings show that participative organizational design, especially in open collaboration projects, have adverse effects in leading to overly confrontational and quarrelsome organizational culture, which not only makes decision making more difficult, but also deters people less used to debating and conflict.
Social implications – The social implications of the findings suggest that even in highly democratized structures, some minimal forms of leadership, and governance are useful to facilitate the decision-making processes.
Originality/value – This paper extends the understanding of organizational dynamics and governance in open collaboration organizations, and exposes the shortcomings of this model, which are an inevitable trade-off for its indisputable benefits.
Dariusz Jemielniak , (2016) "Wikimedia movement governance: the limits of a-hierarchical organization", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 29 Iss: 3, pp.361 - 378
Design/methodology/approach – The research design relies on an ethnographic, long-term, participative study of the Wikipedia community at large. The methods used rely mainly on discourse analysis and interviews. The study benefits from the unique participant immersion of the researcher (who spent six years participating in the studied community, making over five edits each day on average, and being elected to several positions of highest trust within the organization).
Findings – The findings show that the open, participative, and democratic character of the organization, which in theory is oriented toward sustainable solidarity, as well as the semi-anonymous character of some of the members' identities, makes the community more empowered yet more belligerent. Also, the entirely open and flat governance model makes it more difficult to establish a stable leadership consensus.
Research limitations/implications – Research is limited due to its methodological design, as it relies on in-depth qualitative case studies, rather than wider analysis. Further quantitative research is needed to confirm the findings on a bigger scale and in other open collaboration organizations. Practical implications – The findings show that participative organizational design, especially in open collaboration projects, have adverse effects in leading to overly confrontational and quarrelsome organizational culture, which not only makes decision making more difficult, but also deters people less used to debating and conflict.
Social implications – The social implications of the findings suggest that even in highly democratized structures, some minimal forms of leadership, and governance are useful to facilitate the decision-making processes.
Originality/value – This paper extends the understanding of organizational dynamics and governance in open collaboration organizations, and exposes the shortcomings of this model, which are an inevitable trade-off for its indisputable benefits.
Dariusz Jemielniak , (2016) "Wikimedia movement governance: the limits of a-hierarchical organization", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 29 Iss: 3, pp.361 - 378
Research Interests: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Online Communities, Internet Sociology, Peer Production, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and 9 moreCooperatives, Digital Ethnography, Online Communities of Practice, Wikipedia Studies, Wikipedia, Community Governance, Hierarchy, Digital Sociology, and Digital Governance
While researchers are becoming increasingly interested in studying OSS phenomenon, there is still a small number of studies analyzing larger samples of projects investigating the structure of activities among OSS developers. The... more
While researchers are becoming increasingly interested in studying OSS phenomenon, there is still a small number of studies analyzing larger samples of projects investigating the structure of activities among OSS developers. The significant amount of information that has been gathered in the publicly available open-source software repositories and mailing-list archives offers an opportunity to analyze projects structures and participant involvement. In this article, using on commits data from 263 Apache projects repositories (nearly all), we show that although OSS development is often described as collaborative, but it in fact predominantly relies on radically solitary input and individual, non-collaborative contributions. We also show, in the first published study of this magnitude, that the engagement of contributors is based on a power-law distribution.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to see how digital societies' studies can be inspired by cross-cultural management. Design/methodology/approach – Theory critical analysis and review. Findings – The paper reveals many similarities... more
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to see how digital societies' studies can be inspired by cross-cultural management. Design/methodology/approach – Theory critical analysis and review. Findings – The paper reveals many similarities and analogies, allowing for useful connections between cross-cultural management research, and studying digital societies. Originality/value – By exposing methodological and theoretical links of cross-cultural management field in general, and Magala's contribution in particular, the following paper helps in better understanding of contemporary research on digital societies, as well as allows for the use of already proven methodologies and approaches in the emerging field of the internet studies.
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Higher education around the world is currently undergoing a neo-liberal administrative takeover. The drive to reduce costs and increased bureaucratization do not serve any other purpose than increasing the power of the universities’... more
Higher education around the world is currently undergoing a neo-liberal administrative takeover. The drive to reduce
costs and increased bureaucratization do not serve any other purpose than increasing the power of the universities’
administration. The reasons for allowing this situation to happen are related to scholars’ inertia and subscribing to a belief
that academia can and should be impractical. As a result, the emerging corporate university, McDonaldized model relies
increasingly on contingent and deskilled faculty, effectively eliminating the traditional academic freedoms. We conclude with
suggestions for possible courses of action to make a constructive counter-movement to the radical changes taking place.
We propose that we can begin addressing the predicaments of higher education through re-discovering our role in the
society, by re-conceptualizing the disciplinary boundaries of academic fields, by forcing the de-bunkerization of academic
career and work, and by starting up multi-disciplinary learning communities at universities. We argue that collective action
is needed immediately, if any positive change is possible at all before more of higher education is more deeply degraded.
costs and increased bureaucratization do not serve any other purpose than increasing the power of the universities’
administration. The reasons for allowing this situation to happen are related to scholars’ inertia and subscribing to a belief
that academia can and should be impractical. As a result, the emerging corporate university, McDonaldized model relies
increasingly on contingent and deskilled faculty, effectively eliminating the traditional academic freedoms. We conclude with
suggestions for possible courses of action to make a constructive counter-movement to the radical changes taking place.
We propose that we can begin addressing the predicaments of higher education through re-discovering our role in the
society, by re-conceptualizing the disciplinary boundaries of academic fields, by forcing the de-bunkerization of academic
career and work, and by starting up multi-disciplinary learning communities at universities. We argue that collective action
is needed immediately, if any positive change is possible at all before more of higher education is more deeply degraded.
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In the chapter present the results of an analysis of the social organization of Wikipedia, the largest collaborative movement of humankind, based on the theoretical framework offered by Zygmunt Bauman. The development of info-communal... more
In the chapter present the results of an analysis of the social organization of Wikipedia, the largest collaborative movement of humankind, based on the theoretical framework offered by Zygmunt Bauman. The development of info-communal approach is possible as a result of what we propose to call “liquid collaboration”, relying on short-term fragile interactions, non-personal and transient cooperation, all directly related to virtual and liquid identities. As hypothesized by Bauman, this mode of work and social interaction is also marked with peer control and organizational surveillance. MThrough Bauman’s conception of the moral social being, as well as free information movement and hacker ethics, this chapter further presents an empirical example of how agency might be formed in liquid modernity.
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Organizational ethnography is one of the most valued approaches to qualitative studies of organizations. Much attention has been given to the development of the research process, of which the researcher's identity is an integral part.... more
Organizational ethnography is one of the most valued approaches to qualitative studies of organizations. Much attention has been given to the development of the research process, of which the researcher's identity is an integral part. However, we believe that the analysis of research failures has been much less developed in the discourse of ethnographic methods for the study of organizations. Therefore, we have explored some of the “slips” in ethnographic work, as described in accounts of fellow organizational anthropologists. As the study is qualitative, we have adopted a narrative research method. We have divided the “slips” (i.e., errors) into four categories important for the ethnographer's identity: (a) one's role; (b) one's project, (c) one's relation to “the Other”; and (d) the social context of the slip.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a qualitative study of software engineers' playful behaviors at work. Design/methodology/approach – The interviewed software engineers come from two European and three... more
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a qualitative study of software engineers' playful behaviors at work.
Design/methodology/approach – The interviewed software engineers come from two European and three American companies. The research is based on ethnographical data, gathered in two longitudinal studies2005-2008 . The methods used in the study include open-ended unstructured interviews, participant observations, stories collection, and shadowings.
Findings – It is found that the currently dominant theory of normative control explaining software engineers workplace diminishes leisure and entertainment attributes of knowledge work. Fun at workplace is discovered to be an important, if not crucial, element of everyday programmers' job.
Originality/value – The study contributes to the literature by replying to the call for more research on high-tech organizational practices, and on non-job related behaviors at workplace. It reveals playful performance as a constituent for knowledge work and may contribute towards a better understanding of the role played by fun and playful behavior in creative problem-solving and inventing.
Design/methodology/approach – The interviewed software engineers come from two European and three American companies. The research is based on ethnographical data, gathered in two longitudinal studies2005-2008 . The methods used in the study include open-ended unstructured interviews, participant observations, stories collection, and shadowings.
Findings – It is found that the currently dominant theory of normative control explaining software engineers workplace diminishes leisure and entertainment attributes of knowledge work. Fun at workplace is discovered to be an important, if not crucial, element of everyday programmers' job.
Originality/value – The study contributes to the literature by replying to the call for more research on high-tech organizational practices, and on non-job related behaviors at workplace. It reveals playful performance as a constituent for knowledge work and may contribute towards a better understanding of the role played by fun and playful behavior in creative problem-solving and inventing.
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This book provides a thorough review of tested qualitative methods often used in organization studies, and outlines the challenges and essential requirements of designing a qualitative research project. The methods examined include case... more
This book provides a thorough review of tested qualitative methods often used in organization studies, and outlines the challenges and essential requirements of designing a qualitative research project. The methods examined include case studies, observation, interviewing and the repertory grid technique. By highlighting certain key ‘rules’ for carrying out qualitative research and describing issues that should be avoided, this second volume of Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies is essential reading for academics and researchers who wish to understand the current state of qualitative data gathering within organization studies. Those exploring organization studies will find this two-volume collection extremely valuable as it contains robust contributions from highly-skilled authors who are actively researching in this field.
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Fragment książki "Socjologia internetu".
Jemielniak, Dariusz (2019) Socjologia internetu, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar
Jemielniak, Dariusz (2019) Socjologia internetu, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar
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With an emphasis on peer–produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously characterized as a hive mind and an information... more
With an emphasis on peer–produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously characterized as a hive mind and an information revolution, attracting millions of new users even as it has been denigrated as anarchic and plagued by misinformation. Have Wikipedia's structure and inner workings promoted its astonishing growth and enduring public relevance?
In Common Knowledge?, Dariusz Jemielniak draws on his academic expertise and years of active participation within the Wikipedia community to take readers inside the site, illuminating how it functions and deconstructing its distinctive organization. Against a backdrop of misconceptions about its governance, authenticity, and accessibility, Jemielniak delivers the first ethnography of Wikipedia, revealing that it is not entirely at the mercy of the public: instead, it balances open access and power with a unique bureaucracy that takes a page from traditional organizational forms. Along the way, Jemielniak incorporates fascinating cases that highlight the tug of war among the participants as they forge ahead in this pioneering environment.
In Common Knowledge?, Dariusz Jemielniak draws on his academic expertise and years of active participation within the Wikipedia community to take readers inside the site, illuminating how it functions and deconstructing its distinctive organization. Against a backdrop of misconceptions about its governance, authenticity, and accessibility, Jemielniak delivers the first ethnography of Wikipedia, revealing that it is not entirely at the mercy of the public: instead, it balances open access and power with a unique bureaucracy that takes a page from traditional organizational forms. Along the way, Jemielniak incorporates fascinating cases that highlight the tug of war among the participants as they forge ahead in this pioneering environment.
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This critical ethnographic study of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive organization workplaces focuses on the issues of timing and schedules, the perception of formality and trust and distrust in software development as well as... more
This critical ethnographic study of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive organization workplaces focuses on the issues of timing and schedules, the perception of formality and trust and distrust in software development as well as motivation and occupational identity among software engineers.
The book is a cross-cultural, comparative study of American and European high-tech workplaces that addresses the issues currently of interest to both Academia and to practice and provides a rare international comparison of organizations from both sides of the Atlantic. Its conclusions shed new light on the problems typical for software projects. The book specifically focuses on, and gives voice to, the perspectives of knowledge workers rather than managers and will thus be useful to not only scholars and human resource managers from software companies, but also to high-tech professionals.
Scholars and professionals in organization studies, management, HRM, innovation and knowledge management will find this book engaging and enlightening.
The book is a cross-cultural, comparative study of American and European high-tech workplaces that addresses the issues currently of interest to both Academia and to practice and provides a rare international comparison of organizations from both sides of the Atlantic. Its conclusions shed new light on the problems typical for software projects. The book specifically focuses on, and gives voice to, the perspectives of knowledge workers rather than managers and will thus be useful to not only scholars and human resource managers from software companies, but also to high-tech professionals.
Scholars and professionals in organization studies, management, HRM, innovation and knowledge management will find this book engaging and enlightening.
Research Interests: Sociology of Work, Project Management, Innovation statistics, Organizational Culture, Organization Studies, and 16 moreWorkplace Studies, Software Development, Creative Industries, Anthropology of Work, Employment, Critical Organization Studies, Knowledge-intensive work, Knowledge Work, R&d, Further and Higher Education, Managing Knowledge Workers, Film industry, Knowledge Workers, Virtual Work, Work and Organisation, and Virtual Labour
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Książka omawia zastosowania i oceny metody Action Research w doradztwie strategicznym. Dzięki niej Czytelnik powinien zrozumieć, w jaki sposób stosować metodologię Action Research w doradztwie strategicznym, aby rozwiązać praktyczne... more
Książka omawia zastosowania i oceny metody Action Research w doradztwie strategicznym. Dzięki niej Czytelnik powinien zrozumieć, w jaki sposób stosować metodologię Action Research w doradztwie strategicznym, aby rozwiązać praktyczne problemy firmy i dokonać gruntownej zmiany organizacji oraz stworzyć warunki do uczenia się organizacji.
Od połowy lat 90. XX wieku metoda Action Research przeżywa prawdziwy boom w zachodniej praktyce konsultingu dzięki dostrzeżeniu wielu możliwości jej wykorzystania, szczególnie przy rozwiązywaniu problemów organizacyjnych i branżowych. Pomimo to metoda ta ma nadal relatywnie małe zastosowanie w polskiej praktyce, a badania Action Research w zarządzaniu są rzadko spotykane. Wynika to z ich długotrwałego i ryzykownego procesu aplikacji, przy jednoczesnym coraz większym oczekiwaniu przez organizacje szybkich efektów. Mimo uznania jej użyteczności przy doradztwie strategicznym nie jest to metoda powszechnie wykorzystywana przez wielkie korporacje konsultingowe, które przede wszystkim stosują standardowe narzędzia wymagające znacznie mniejszego zaangażowania i dostosowywania.
Action Research pozostaje raczej domeną firm małych, niezależnych bądź afiliowanych przy uniwersytetach. Dlatego niniejsza książka, wskazująca praktyczne zastosowanie tej metody wraz z efektami, przede wszystkim natury niematerialnej, rozwija teorię, a zarazem jest praktyczna.
Od połowy lat 90. XX wieku metoda Action Research przeżywa prawdziwy boom w zachodniej praktyce konsultingu dzięki dostrzeżeniu wielu możliwości jej wykorzystania, szczególnie przy rozwiązywaniu problemów organizacyjnych i branżowych. Pomimo to metoda ta ma nadal relatywnie małe zastosowanie w polskiej praktyce, a badania Action Research w zarządzaniu są rzadko spotykane. Wynika to z ich długotrwałego i ryzykownego procesu aplikacji, przy jednoczesnym coraz większym oczekiwaniu przez organizacje szybkich efektów. Mimo uznania jej użyteczności przy doradztwie strategicznym nie jest to metoda powszechnie wykorzystywana przez wielkie korporacje konsultingowe, które przede wszystkim stosują standardowe narzędzia wymagające znacznie mniejszego zaangażowania i dostosowywania.
Action Research pozostaje raczej domeną firm małych, niezależnych bądź afiliowanych przy uniwersytetach. Dlatego niniejsza książka, wskazująca praktyczne zastosowanie tej metody wraz z efektami, przede wszystkim natury niematerialnej, rozwija teorię, a zarazem jest praktyczna.