From Teams to Knots : Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521148499
ISBN-13
9780521148498
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 12th, 2010
Print length
278 Pages
Weight
428 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.40 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Organizational theory & behaviourOrganizational theory and behaviour
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This book analyzes the development of work teams as work itself changes. It shows that fixed and stable teams are being replaced by fluid forms of constantly changing collaboration across organizational boundaries. This is a big learning challenge and an opportunity for practitioners to redesign their work and organizations.
Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and humane ways of organizing work and learning. By means of a series of in-depth case studies of teams in the United States and Finland over a time span of more than 10 years, this book shows that teams are not a universal and ahistorical form of collaboration. Teams are best understood in their specific activity contexts and embedded in historical development of work. Today, static teams are increasingly replaced by forms of fluid knotworking around runaway objects that require and generate new forms of expansive learning and distributed agency. This book develops a set of conceptual tools for analysis and design of transformations in collaborative work and learning.
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