Technological communities and the diffusion of knowledge

Rappa, Michael A.; Debackere, Koenraad

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1992.tb00811.x

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“…This paper explores this apparent paradox by proposing and testing a model of innovation that takes a sociocognitive view of an industry by addressing it as a technological community concerned with developing, evaluating, and implementing solutions to problems (Rappa & Debackere, 1991). We begin by reviewing the research looking at innovation as shared sense-making (Garud & Ahlstrom, 1997;Garud & Rappa, 1994;Rappa & Debackere, 1991).…”

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Responding to technological maturity: A socio-cognitive model of science and innovation in technological communities

Makri

Lane

2007

The Journal of High Technology Management Research

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Responding to technological maturity: A socio-cognitive model of science and innovation in technological communities

Makri

Lane

2007

The Journal of High Technology Management Research

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“…Like programmers, researchers are less motivated by monetary rewards than by communality, the advancement of knowledge, and professional recognition, which depend upon the wide dissemination of results (Badawy, 1973;Burrill, 1986;Debackere et al, 1996;Mellican, 1992;Rappa and Debackere, 1992). R&D teams that exchange information are both more effective and more innovative (Bouty, 2000;Rappa and Debackere, 1992), so this norm may reflect the circumstances required for a productivity. The importance of information exchange to R&D work suggests that they will have less respect for intellectual property rights.…”

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Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Unethical Information Technology Practices: The Case of Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology

Winter

Stylianou

Giacalone

2004

Journal of Business Ethics

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While information technologies present organizations with opportunities to become more competitive, unsettled social norms and lagging legislation guiding the use of these technologies present organizations and individuals with ethical dilemmas. This paper presents two studies investigating the relationship between intellectual property and privacy attitudes, Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology, and working in R&D and computer literacy in the form of programming experience. In Study 1, Machiavellians believed it was more acceptable to ignore the intellectual property and privacy rights of others. Programmers and R&D workers considered violating intellectual property rights more acceptable. Programmers did not consider violating privacy rights more acceptable, but R&D workers did. Finally, there was an interaction between Machiavellianism, programming and R&D. Machiavellians who also had programming experience or worked in R&D found violations of intellectual property much more acceptable. The effect of Machiavellianism on attitudes toward violations of privacy was enhanced by working in R&D, but not by programming experience. In Study 2, idealists believed it was less acceptable to ignore the intellectual property and privacy rights of others. Relativists found it more acceptable to violate intellectual property rights, though they did not consider it more acceptable to violate privacy rights. Those with programming experience were more accepting of intellectual property rights violations, but not of privacy violations. Finally, programming experience moderated the relationship between idealism, relativism and attitudes toward these unethical information practices. Implications for diminishing unethical behavior among Machiavellians, Relativists, programmers and those in R&D are discussed.

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“…One conceptualization of such groups of actors and organizations is provided in the literature on technological communities [22][23][24][25]. The concept of technological (or innovation [26]) communities is used to describe and understand the inter-actor and inter-organizational behaviour in innovation.…”

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“…"group of scientists and engineers, who are working towards solving an interrelated set of technological problems and who may be organisationally and geographically dispersed but who nevertheless communicate with each other" [22].…”

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Arenas of expectations for hydrogen technologies

Bakker

Lente

Meeus

2011

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Arenas of expectations for hydrogen technologiesBakker, S.; van Lente, H.; Meeus, Marius General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Technological development is often described as an evolutionary process of variation, selection and retention. Different technologies are seen as variations, while the market and other institutions operate as a selection environment. It is less understood, however, how variation and selection relate in the case of emerging technologies. In this paper we introduce the concept of arenas of expectations to examine the relationship between variation and selection processes. Expectations are of particular interest in a pre-market phase of innovation, when performance, cost and other market criteria are less articulated and not stable. In arenas of expectations 'enactors' of particular technological variations voice and maintain expectations, while 'selectors' will compare and assess the competing claims. We analyse the expectations work of both parties in a case study on metal hydrides for the on-board storage of hydrogen for automotive applications. The paper concludes with a framework of 'arenas of expectations' as the linchpin between the processes of variation and selection of emerging technologies.

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Technological communities and the diffusion of knowledge

Cited by 71 publications

References 12 publications

Responding to technological maturity: A socio-cognitive model of science and innovation in technological communities

Responding to technological maturity: A socio-cognitive model of science and innovation in technological communities

Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Unethical Information Technology Practices: The Case of Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology

Arenas of expectations for hydrogen technologies

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