An investigation of user-led system design: rational and political perspectives
Communications of the ACM - Special section on management of information systems
An actor dependency model of organizational work: with application to business process reengineering
COCS '93 Proceedings of the conference on Organizational computing systems
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Models for supporting the redesign of organizational work
COCS '95 Proceedings of conference on Organizational computing systems
From object-oriented to goal-oriented requirements analysis
Communications of the ACM
Social Analyses of Computing: Theoretical Perspectives in Recent Empirical Research
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A Formal Approach to Workflow Analysis
Information Systems Research
Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling--A Research Agenda
Information Systems Research
Workflow Analysis using Attributed Metagraphs
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 9 - Volume 9
Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Guided Tour
RE '01 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
Into the Black Box: The Knowledge Transformation Cycle
Management Science
Information exchange and use in GSS and verbal group decision making: effects of minority influence
Journal of Management Information Systems
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The role of knowledge in organizations has been conceptualized in ways that range from viewing it as a primary input to the production process, to offering a knowledge-based view of the whole organization. While divergent in their approaches, the differing views increasingly emphasize the role of inter-functional and inter-organizational knowledge linkages in determining the performance of a firm (Grant and Baden-Fuller in J Manag Stud 41(1):61---84, 2004). This paper offers a conceptualization of these linkages in what is termed a knowledge dependency. Adopting the view of knowledge as the primary organizational resource (Grant in Strateg Manag J 17(Winter Special Issue):109---122, 1996), we use ideas and concepts from the resource dependency theory (Pfeffer and Salancik in The external control of organizations: a resource dependence perspective, 1978) and knowledge transformation cycle (Carlile and Rebentisch in Manag Sci 49(9):1180---1195, 2003) to identify relevant constructs and relationships needed to model these knowledge dependencies. Building on a number of already established modeling techniques, we propose a new modeling grammar that explicitly captures the appropriation of knowledge in activities needed to realize the identified goals, and the knowledge flows between the different actors in an application domain. The resulting script (strategic knowledge-based dependency diagram) is a conceptual model that aids in the analysis stage preceding the design of an information system that supports knowledge-based processes across organizations.