Distributed cognition research focuses on how context shapes individuals' cognition (Brown and Duguid, 1991). The contexts consist of social practices that individuals have repeatedly use, such as artifacts, concepts and procedures. Different contexts present different practices, which in turn shape cognition differently. Organizations reduces the information process.
organizational cognition is defined as the pattern of interconnections that employees establish among organizational resources, which focuses analytic attention on interactions rather than on "within-group similarity of attitudes, understanding or languages" (Weick and Roberts,1993).
Organization cognition is assumed to be a scattered phenomenon, scholars are trying to understand how individuals develop their expertise when they are recruited by the organizations. The main idea is that people try to develop attunement to cognitive resources. That is people notice the information provided by special resources and then use the new contextualized information. members can develop adaptive attunement, when they pay attention to the information cues. Or they can develop maladaptive attunement, when they ignore and get distracted by the new information.
One research area for distributed cognition research focus on the self. One can construct self ont he stable internal traits. One can also construct self on their history. How individuals construct themselves will influence their cognition.
References:
Michel, A. (2007). A distributed cognition perspective on newcomers’ change processes: The management of cognitive uncertainty in two investment banks. Administrative Science Quarterly.
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