Professor Paul Duguid
Professorial Research Fellow in Knowledge Management

Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 3921
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: University of California, Berkeley
Email: p.duguid@qmul.ac.uk

Research interests:

A graduate of Bristol University and Washington University, St Louis, Paul is Professorial Research Fellow in Knowledge Management in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University of London. He joined the School in September 2005. He is concurrently an adjunct professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2002 to 2005, he was part-time Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School. From 1989 to 2001 he was a consultant at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.  He is an honorary research fellow at the Institute for Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development at Lancaster University and a visiting researcher in business history at York University.

Paul is co-author, with John Seely Brown of The Social Life of Information (2000) and numerous other essays on technology, knowledge, organisation, and practice. His recent work focuses on the question of quality and related issues of authority, authenticity, and warranting in the information age. He is also exploring trademark and branding history.

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Publications:

Journal Articles:

Duguid, P, (2009) French Connections: The Propagaton of Trade Marks in the Nineteenth Century Enterprise& Society 10(1) : 33-37. (winner of the Mira Wilkins prize for best article on International and Comparative History)

Duguid, P, (2007) Awards as Norms , European Management Review 4: 15-18

Duguid, P, (2006) What Talking About Machines Tells Us, Organization Studies, 27(12): 1794-1804, ISSN: 0170-8406

Duguid, P, (2005) "The Art of Knowing": Social and Tacit Dimensions of Knowledge The Information Society 21(2): 109-118.

Duguid, P, (2005) Networks and Knowledge: The Beginning and End of the Port Commodity Chain, 1703-1860
Business History Review, 79(3): 493-526, ISSN: 0007-6805 (winner of the Newcomen-Harvard award)

Duguid, P (2004) The Methuen Treaty in the English Imagination Historia 3(4): 9-36

Duguid, P (2003) Developing the Brand: The Case of Alcohol, 1800-1880 Enterprise& Society 4(3): 405-441

Duguid, P & Brown, J (2002) Local Knowledge: Innovation in the Networked Age, Management Learning, 33(4): 427-437, ISSN: 1350-5076

Duguid, P & Brown, J (2001) Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective, Organization Science, 12(2): 198-213, ISSN: 1047-7039

Chapters in Books:

Silva Lopes, T & Duguid, P eds. (2010) Trademarks, Brands & Competitiveness London: Routledge,

Duguid, P in Silva Lopes & Duguid, eds, (2010) Brands in Chains Trademarks, Brands & Competitiveness London: Routledge,

Duguid, P in Amin & Roberts, eds, (2008) The Community of Practice Then and Now Organizing for the Creative Economy: Community, Practice, and Capitalism Oxford: Oxford University Press

Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:

2010-2011      Portuguese Studies Program, faculty research grant
2009-2010    France-Berkeley Fund,
2006-2009      ESRC, UK 
Reassessing the Mark: A Historical View of Trademarks and British Competitiveness
with Teresa da Silva Lopes, Queen Mary, University of London
2004-2005      ESRC/SSRC Visiting Fellowship Grant
2003     Maitre de Rechêrche, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
2001-2002     Fellow, Center for the Public Domain
1995-1998     National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington D.C. Collaborative Grants Division Producing Families: Trading in History, with Jean C. Lave
1995-1998     Fundação Luso-American, Portugal
Producing Families: Trading in History, with Jean C. Lave