The Social Life of Information
The Social Life of Information
Organizational Routines as a Source of Continuous Change
Organization Science
Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
Organization Science
Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing
Organization Science
How practice matters: a relational view of knowledge sharing
Communities and technologies
Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory
Organization Science
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking
Organization Science
Gaffers, Gofers, and Grips: Role-Based Coordination in Temporary Organizations
Organization Science
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory
Organization Science
The family resemblance of technologically mediated work practices
Information and Organization
Understanding the Role of Objects in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Organization Science
Sustainable enterprise interoperability from the Activity Domain Theory perspective
Computers in Industry
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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This paper aims to shift the unit of analysis in the study of organisational knowledge from individuals and their actions to practices and their relationships. It introduces the concept of “site” to help advance an understanding of the relationship between practice and knowing. The notion of site supports the intuition that knowing is both sustained in practice and manifests itself through practice. It also evokes the idea of knowledge as being rooted in an extended pattern of interconnected activities that only when taken in its living and pulsating entirety constitutes the site of knowing. In this paper, I review the different ways to conceptualise the relationships between knowing and practice, and I show how the idea of site adds to the existing body of work. Building on the results of a longitudinal study in the field of telemedicine, I then offer suggestions on aspects of practice where knowing manifests itself, and I use the concepts of “translation by contact” and “at distance” to explain how dispersed knowings are woven together and the power effect that can derive from these. I conclude by reflecting on the implications of this radical view and the direction for future research.