From Teams to Knots
eBook - PDF

From Teams to Knots

Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

From Teams to Knots

Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series-title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Series Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Teams and the Transformation of Work
  10. 2 Disturbance Management and Masking in a Television Production Team
  11. 3 Teamwork between Adversaries: Coordination, Cooperation, and Communication in a Court Trial
  12. 4 Displacement and Innovation in Primary Care Medical Teams
  13. 5 Crossing Boundaries in Teacher Teams
  14. 6 Knowledge Creation in Industrial Work Teams
  15. 7 Teams, Infrastructures, and Social Capital
  16. 8 From Iron Cages to Webs on the Wind
  17. 9 Knotworking and Agency in Fluid Organizational Fields
  18. References
  19. Auther Index
  20. Subject Index