CENTRALIZED, PARRALLEL, AND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION PROCESSING DURING COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING

Collective sensemaking in virtual teams

Virtual teams (VT) have been studied since two decades because of their increasing presence in today’s organizations. To better understand how VTs work, our research tries to address this issue by analysing interpretive frameworks through which students made sense of a VT experience as part of a course taught simultaneously in two distant universities. Using the concepts of sensemaking (Weick, ...

Centralized and distributed cognitive task processing in the human connectome

A key question in modern neuroscience is how cognitive changes in a human brain can be quantified and captured by functional connectomes (FC) . A systematic approach to measure pairwise functional distance at different brain states is lacking. This would provide a straight-forward way to quantify differences in cognitive processing across tasks; also, it would help in relating these differences...

Comparing Centralized and Distributed Architectures

Distributed Communication as Collective Socio-material Sensemaking in Global Software Work

In this paper, we address the issue of communication difficulties on globally distributed offshoring projects. We argue that although communication issues feature prominently in the extant literature on offshoring, and in that pertaining to project management more generally, they are not dealt with in a very satisfactory way. In particular, much of the literature either treats communication as ...

Sensemaking in a Distributed Environment

As globalization continues to increase, sensemaking in a distributed environment is likely to grow in importance as the expertise necessary to address increasing environmental complexity is more widely geographically dispersed. Paradoxically, the information and communication technologies that make sensemaking in a distributed environment possible simultaneously may create a context that inhibi...