Sharing Meaning Across Occupational Communities: The Transformation of Understanding on a Production Floor

By Beth A. Bechky. Organ. Sci., 2003

1,756 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ffc6584748ff0052271896ca3a865acb70dbfd32

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Computer Science Applications

In Sociology and Political Science

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Social structure and technology spillovers from foreign to domestic firms (2012, neutral): “This is a fairly strong assumption, given what we know about the difficulties of transferring and replicating knowledge effectively within and across firms (Bechky, 2003; Nelson & Winter, 1982; Teece, 1986).”
Shaping tasks and relationships at work: Examining the antecedents and consequences of employee job crafting (2007, background): “Since the task is the means of continued existence of an occupational group or 76 specialty, these groups will guard their core task domains from pot ential competitors (Bechky, 2003a; Allen, 2000; Mesler, 1991).”
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, neutral): “The boundary could be between occupational groups (Bechky, 2003), between organizational units (Darr, Argote & Epple, 1995) or between geographic areas (Tallman & Phene, 2007).”
Innovation in a global consulting firm: when the problem is too much diversity (2010, background): “Integrating information and work practices across an organization is challenging; particularly when trying to do so across different functional areas (Bechky, 2003).”
Telework: a challenge to knowledge transfer in organizations (2010, background): “Research has repeatedly shown that shared mental schemes, language, and narratives that encourage knowledge transfer within departments or occupational communities constitute a source of differences between groups that can be difficult to surmount in transferring knowledge across interpretative boun”
Offshoring and the global distribution of work: Implications for task interdependence theory and practice (2009, background): “This made it easier for workers to observe and come to a common understanding of the state of the work object and its transformation (manufacturing) process (e.g., Bechky, 2003; Engeström, Engeström, & Kärkkäinen, 1995).”
Exploring the Foundations of Cumulative Innovation: Implications for Organization Science (2007, background): “Artifacts help them recall and recombine distinct pieces of knowledge offering a tangible form of access to help translate knowledge from one community of experts to another (Bechky 2003a, b; Carlile 2004).”
Predicting meaning in work: Theory, data, implications (2013, background): “…create a sense of connectedness, companionship and belonging, which has been shown to enhance the perception of work as meaningful (Ashforth & Kreiner, 1999; Ashmos & Duchon, 2000; Bechky, 2003; Grant, Dutton, & Rosso, 2008; May et al., 2004; Milliman, Ferguson, Trickett, & Condemi, 1999, 2003).”
Attentional Triangulation: Learning from Unexpected Rare Crises (2009, background): “me to develop longitudinal cross-level theory by discerning how the work context (Bechky 2003) caused distinct hierarchical levels to pay attention to particular issues with changing degrees of stability, vividness, and coherence.”
Knowledge Practices in Design: The Role of Visual Representations as `Epistemic Objects' (2009, background): “Bechky (2003), for instance, argues that objects such as engineering drawings and machines in production ‘embed knowledge’ and are therefore useful in problem solving.”
The Core and Cosmopolitans: A Relational View of Innovation in User Communities (2012, background): “Research has underlined the challenges of transferring knowledge from one community to another within organizations (Dougherty 1992, Bechky 2003, Carlile 2004).”
Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger (2010, background): “Similar dynamics surround the innovation narratives described by Bartel and Garud (2009) and the cross-functional teams discussed by Bechky (2003).”
“The Art of Knowing”: Social and Tacit Dimensions of Knowledge and the Limits of the Community of Practice (2005, background): “…_that_ becomes much more challenging--even when the different practices lie together within an Art of Knowing (final A4) 11 20/8/04 organization (Bechky, 2003; Carlile, 2002).21 Explication or codification does not solve the problem.22 [/H2] Ethical commitments: will/won't Arguments like…”
A Dialogical Approach to the Creation of New Knowledge in Organizations (2009, background): “For adverse consequences to be assessed, a body of common knowledge may be developed that can represent differences and the consequences arising out of dependencies (Bechky 2003b, p. 324).”