This paper examines how the processes of coordinating a multinational audit impacts, and is effected by, the structuration of globalization. Using a detailed field study of an audit involving multiple locations, we argue that the coordination of work in multinational firms links the local and...

The rapidly expanding literature on knowledge in management research, has outlineda number of different knowledge ‘processes’ such as knowledge sharing, knowledgecreation, knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer. A critical issue, oftendiscussed in terms of enabling innovation or...

Market orientation relates to how well an organization is aligned towards identifying,disseminating and responding to market intelligence. Prior research has typicallyconceptualized and examined market orientation as a property of an individual firm orbusiness unit. Such research has shown that...

Despite the call for pluralism in IS research there is a lack of multi-method research published ininformation systems journals. While many researchers might find the idea of using multiple methodsattractive, there are barriers that prevent them from employing this approach in practice. In this...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine how auditors sought to establish their trustworthiness as trust providers on the internet; a vision which has remained largely unrealized. The investigation focuses on the WebTrust assurance project, launched by the North American accounting institutes to...

Purpose – The authors draw selectively on theories of learning and knowledge, which currently have received little attention from knowledge translation (KT) researchers, and suggest how they might usefully inform future development of the KT literature. The purpose of this paper is to provide...

In this paper we extend transactive memory systems (TMS) theory to develop an understanding of the distributed coordination of expertise in high-reliability organizations. We illustrate our conceptual developments in a study of emergency management and response in Greece. We focus on the...