Abstract

This paper revisits a case study about the consequences on the decision-making process of the introduction of IT in a newspaper firm. We consider the case study in the light of the paradigms of context, social network and virtual community. We point out that it is possible to provide a global picture of the consequence of the IT introduction in a firm and explain the dynamic of the information-management processes in such an enterprise. A first result is that making context explicit-especially shared contexts-improves notably the collaborative decision making processes in the firm. A second result is to show different interests of the simultaneous consideration of the paradigms of context, social network and virtual community.

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@article{cai-1413,
  author  = {Patrick Brézillon},
  title   = {Context and Virtual Communities in a Firm},
  journal = {Computing and Informatics},
  volume  = {23},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {115--131},
  year    = {2004},
  issn    = {1335-9150},
  url     = {https://cai.type.sk/content/2004/2/context-and-virtual-communities-in-a-firm/}
}
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