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From teams to knots : activity-theoretical studies of collaboration and learning at work / Yrjö Engeström.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engeström, Yrjö, 1948-
- Series:
- Learning in doing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teams in the workplace.
- Organizational learning.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- This book looks at the development of work teams as workplaces change and evolve.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0521865670
- 9780521865678
- OCLC:
- 156784988
- Publisher Number:
- 99946423439
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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