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

"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 col...

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Main Author: Engeström, Yrjö, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Learning in doing.
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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.