Transparency regimes and management by content in global organizations. The case of institutional currency trading
Abstract
Argues that informational arrangement may make an organization less of a cumbersome machine by exteriorizing organizational processes on screen, making them transparent, witnessable and (reflexively) self‐changing. The platform organization addresses how some organizations – global investment banks engaged in institutional currency trading and big science collaborations engaged in high energy physics knowledge production – implement a transparency regime of information that extends to local and implicit knowledge. In other words, through being exteriorized, knowledge is kept current, alive and distributed in the respective organizations; to a significant degree, it is effectively precluded from becoming implicit and embodied in places and persons. Corresponds to a form of coordination that is content‐driven rather than social authority based. “Management by contact” is a knowledge‐enhancing, specialist activity closer to mediating and coaching than to “governing” and deciding.
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Citation
Knorr Cetina, K. and Bruegger, U. (2001), "Transparency regimes and management by content in global organizations. The case of institutional currency trading", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 180-194. https://doi.org/10.1108/13673270110695487
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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