Bibliograph

From teams to knots, activity-theoretical studies of collaboration and learning at work, Yrjö Engeström

Type

Label

From teams to knots, activity-theoretical studies of collaboration and learning at work, Yrjö Engeström

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

From teams to knots

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1030080945

Responsibility statement

Yrjö Engeström

Series statement

Learning in doing : social, cognitive and computational perspectivesCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

activity-theoretical studies of collaboration and learning at work

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Teams and the transformation of work -- Disturbance management and masking in a television production team -- Teamwork between adversaries: coordination, cooperation, and communication in a court trial -- Displacement and innovation in primary care medical teams -- Crossing boundaries in teacher teams -- Knowledge creation in industrial work teams -- Teams, infrastructures and social capital -- From iron cages to webs on the wind -- Knotworking and agency in fluid organizational fields

Creator