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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review'… rich in data and conceptual analysis … admirable scholarship …' Mike Bonner, PsycCRITIQUES
'Yrjö Engeström has produced the kind of scholarly synthesis of research on teamwork in organizational settings that social scientists have been waiting for ever since the appearance of his classic prolegomenon, 'Learning by Expanding'. It is both comprehensive in its critical and illuminating treatment of competing lines of research and theory, clear and compelling in its treatment of the work of his research team, and stimulating in its thoughts about the future of work.' Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego
Table of Contents1. Teams and the transformation of work; 2. Disturbance management and masking in a television production team; 3. Teamwork between adversaries: coordination, cooperation, and communication in a court trial; 4. Displacement and innovation in primary care medical teams; 5. Crossing boundaries in teacher teams; 6. Knowledge creation in industrial work teams; 7. Teams, infrastructures, and social capital; 8. From iron cages to webs on the wind; 9. Knotworking and agency in fluid organizational fields.
