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When politicians and the experts collide: Organization and the creation of information spheres

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  • Franklin Riley
  • David K. Allen
  • Thomas Daniel Wilson

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This paper explores collaborative information behavior in the context of highly politicized decision making. It draws upon a qualitative case study of project management of a contentious public sector infrastructure project. We noted the creation of spaces for the development and exchange of information by experts and conceptualize these as information spheres. We postulate that these were formed to bypass power‐induced information behavior that excludes expert power, such as information avoidance. This approach contrasts with the expected project management and information norms, rules and behavior, however, provides a language that can be used to explain the phenomena of bounded information spaces which complement and may be used as a development of adjunct to small world's theory.

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  • Franklin Riley & David K. Allen & Thomas Daniel Wilson, 2022. "When politicians and the experts collide: Organization and the creation of information spheres," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 73(8), pages 1127-1139, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jinfst:v:73:y:2022:i:8:p:1127-1139
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.24618
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