TY  - SER
AU  - Vaast, Emmanuelee
TI  - What goes online comes offline: knowledge management system use in a soft bureaucracy
PY  - 2007///
KW  - Knowledge management
N2  - This paper investigates when and how online practices (i.e. practices of managementy and use of web-based Information Technology) impact offline practices (i.e. regular work practices and communication patterns) within a bureaucratic environment. A case studyof implementation and use of a Knowledge management System by members of a network of practice within the bureaucratic environment of a public administration is interpreted through a situated learning perspective.  This lens helps us to understand the process of emergence of continuity between online and offline practices. Findings indibination of structural changes in the environment and of the involvement of key actors who actively encouraged others to integrate their online practices into their regular activities. The paper helps us to understand the processes of construction of continuity of online and offline practices and the bounded impacts of this continuity within bureaucracies. Such continuity may contribute to the circumscribed emergence of a soft bureaucracy in which professional competences and exchanges are recognized and encouraged, while the structural features of decision making, control, and resource allocation remain unchanged. - Reproduced
BR  - AR74202
ER  -