Cart
Free US shipping over $10
Proud to be B-Corp

From Teams to Knots Yrjoe Engestroem (University of Helsinki)

From Teams to Knots By Yrjoe Engestroem (University of Helsinki)

Summary

This 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.

Faster Shipping

Get this product faster from our US warehouse

From Teams to Knots Summary

From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work by Yrjoe Engestroem (University of Helsinki)

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.

From Teams to Knots Reviews

'... rich in data and conceptual analysis ... admirable scholarship ...' Mike Bonner, PsycCRITIQUES
'Yrjoe Engestroem 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

About Yrjoe Engestroem (University of Helsinki)

Yrjoe Engestroem earned his Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 1987. He is a Professor of Adult Education and Director of the Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning (CRADLE) at the University of Helsinki. He is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where he also served as Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition from 1990 to 1995. Engestroem applies and develops cultural-historical activity theory as a framework for the study of transformations and learning processes in work activities and organizations. He is widely known for his theory of expansive learning and for the methodology of developmental work research.

Table of Contents

1. 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.

Additional information

CIN0521148499G
9780521148498
0521148499
From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work by Yrjoe Engestroem (University of Helsinki)
Used - Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2010-04-12
278
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - From Teams to Knots