Dr. Dominique Maurel

Biography

Dominique Maurel is an Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal, focusing on various dimensions of information and knowledge management within organizations. Her research centers on individual and collective information behaviors and practices, analyzed through a constructivist and interpretivist theoretical lens. She studies how individuals and groups construct reality, apprehend information, and manage knowledge transfer. Maurel's work includes investigating activity documents as negotiation spaces that embody sometimes opposing views on information governance. She applies interactionist action theory to analyze the evolution of information phenomena over time and space, examining the interplay of formal and informal practices that shape organizational memory. Furthermore, Maurel explores how activity documents coordinate management tasks related to both administrative and operational processes, emphasizing the diverse communication genres specific to organizations. Her extensive research interests include information behavior, information governance, strategic information management, organizational memory, and document genres.

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