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Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina (2009). Exploration and Exploitation – Toward a Theory of Knowledge Sharing in Digital Government Projects. Saarbruecken: SVH Verlag. 204pp. ISBN 978-3838101866.

Journal Articles [back to top]

Mergel, Ines, David Lazer, and Maria Christina Binz-Scharf (2008). Lending a helping hand: Voluntary engagement in knowledge sharing. International Journal of Learning and Change 3(1), pp. 5-22.

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina. The social structure of innovation: A knowledge-based view of e-government project implementation. Under review at Government Information Quarterly. Status: Revise and resubmit; second round of revision.

Vaast, Emmanuelle and Maria Christina Binz-Scharf. Transforming government in the post-bureaucratic age. Under review at Organization Studies. Status: Revise and resubmit; second round of revision.

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina, David Lazer, and Ines Mergel. Searching for answers: Networks of practice among public administrators. Under review at American Review of Public Administration. Status: Revise and resubmit.

Book Chapters [back to top]

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina (2007). Firstgov.gov: The road to success of the US government’s web portal. In: Mayer- Schoenberger, Viktor and David Lazer (Eds.), Governance and Information Technology - From Electronic Government to Information Government. Boston: MIT Press, pp. 33-37.

Lazer, David and Maria Christina Binz-Scharf (2007). It takes a network to build a network. In: Mayer-Schoenberger, Viktor and David Lazer (Eds.), Governance and Information Technology - From Electronic Government to Information Government. Boston: MIT Press, pp. 262-278.

Schedler, Kuno and Maria Christina Scharf (2001). Exploring the interrelations between e-government and the New Public Management. 2001. In: Schmid, Beat, Stanoevska, Katarina, & Tschammer, Volker (Eds.), Towards the E-Society. ECommerce, E-Business, and E-Government. Boston: Kluwer, pp. 775-788.

Refereed Conference Proceedings [back to top]

Vaast, Emmanuelle and Maria Christina Binz-Scharf (2008). Bringing change in government organizations: Evolution toward post-bureaucracy with web-based IT projects. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Paper 213.

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina (2005). Collaboration, communication, and control: The effects of ICT-enabled innovation projects on informal organizational structures. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05), pp. 248-256.

Mergel, Ines, David Lazer, and Maria Christina Binz-Scharf (2005). Electronic communication in a geographically dispersed community of forensic scientists. Proceedings of the 2005 National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2005), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 89, pp. 299-300.

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina (2004): Exploration and Exploitation: Knowledge Sharing in Digital Government Projects. Proceedings of the 2004 National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2004) - Electronic version

Lazer, David, and Maria Christina Binz-Scharf (2004): Managing Novelty and Cross-Agency Cooperation in Digital Government. Proceedings of the 2004 National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2004) - Electronic version

Working Papers [back to top]

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina and David Lazer (2008). A new order of things: Managing novelty and cross-agency cooperation. Faculty research working paper series RWP08-048. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Kennedy School.

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina, David Lazer, and Ines Mergel (2008). Searching for answers: Networks of practice among public administrators. Faculty research working paper series RWP08-046. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Kennedy School.

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina, Greta Nasi, Gokce Sargut, David Lazer, Lindzay Wanner, and Alex Turrini (2008). CSI: For Real: The evolution of organizing in a high–tech public agency. SDA Bocconi School of Management Working Paper. Milan, Italy: Bocconi University.

Nasi, Greta, Maria Christina Binz-Scharf, David Lazer, Lindzay Wanner, and Alex Turrini (2008). Knowledge and innovation sharing in public service organizations: The case of the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. SDA Bocconi School of Management Working Paper. Milan, Italy: Bocconi University.

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina (2003). Bureaucratic networks or networked bureaucracies? Knowledge sharing in ICT-enabled innovation projects. NCDG Working Paper No. 03-012. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.