The persistence of behavior and form in the organization of personal information

  • Authors:
  • Deborah Barreau

  • Affiliations:
  • 100 Manning Hall, CB 3360, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–3360

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This study revisits managers who were first interviewed more than 10 years ago to identify their personal information management (PIM) behaviors. The purpose of this study was to see how advances in technology and access to the Web may have affected their PIM behaviors. PIM behaviors seem to have changed little over time, suggesting that technological advances are less important in determining how individuals organize and use information than are the tasks that they perform. Managers identified increased volume of e-mail and the frustration with having to access multiple systems with different, unsynchronized passwords as their greatest PIM challenges. Organizational implications are discussed. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.