User goals on an online public access catalog
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: current research in online public access systems
Information seeking in context: a challenging metatheory
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Discovering information behavior in sense making. I: time and timing
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Discovering information behavior in sense making. II: the social
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Work, friendship, and media use for information exchange in a networked organization
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Information mosaics: patterns of action that structure
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
A finger on the pulse: temporal rhythms and information seeking in medical work
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Organizational Memory: Processes, Boundary Objects, and Trajectories
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
When worlds collide: molecular biology as interdisciplinary collaboration
ECSCW'01 Proceedings of the seventh conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
IIiX Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context
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Timing of organizational information sharing is an under-explored area of research in information science. Timing has been addressed on the individual level in the context of sense-making, or in terms of moves in information seeking. In related areas, time has been treated, largely, in terms of life cycle theories, which then again does not feature information sharing. In this paper we have drawn on a broader range of source materials to investigate timing and information sharing in two very different social environments: an insurance claims department and a biotechnology firm. The key question is “how does timing work in the contexts where information sharing happens?” The study shows that sharing cannot be considered without taking timing into account. The cases reveal that organisational timing depends on the demands of social process as well as on individual disposition. Topic Areas: Contextual factors, Information seeking and behaviour.