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| Author: | Knox, H. (et al.) |
| Title: | Rites of passage: Organization as an excess of flows |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Management
2007 : SEP, VOL. 23:3, p. 265-284 |
| Index terms: | organization research airports management information systems communication |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Airports are conceptualized as the archetypal 'space of flows' in an emerging network-based global economy. This paper draws upon an ongoing study at Fullton International Airport to explore how contemporary information systems take part in the development of new kinds of knowledge/s and practice/s, placing in turn particular demands on various participants to produce and maintain organization as a genre-defying 'sociotechnical imbroglio'. It is found that different and often-incompatible modes of ordering emerge, generating an excess of flow that can be traced through a whole series of subjects, objects and various 'virtual-real' combinations. Discovered is an over-determined range of performances of people and objects making management a difficult and precarious task. |
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