{"product_id":"from-teams-to-knots-activity-theoretical-studies-of-collaboration-and-learning-at-work-hardback-9780521865678","title":"From Teams to Knots; Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work (Hardback) 9780521865678","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom Teams to Knots\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eActivity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy means of in-depth case studies, this book analyzes the development of work teams as work itself changes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYrjö Engeström (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521865678, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 April 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages, 42 b\/w illus.  8 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTeams 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Teams and the transformation of work\u003cbr\u003e 2. Disturbance management and masking in a television production team\u003cbr\u003e 3. Teamwork between adversaries: coordination, cooperation, and communication in a court trial\u003cbr\u003e 4. Displacement and innovation in primary care medical teams\u003cbr\u003e 5. Crossing boundaries in teacher teams\u003cbr\u003e 6. Knowledge creation in industrial work teams\u003cbr\u003e 7. Teams, infrastructures, and social capital\u003cbr\u003e 8. From iron cages to webs on the wind\u003cbr\u003e 9. Knotworking and agency in fluid organizational fields.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Organizational theory \u0026amp; behaviour [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Organizational theory \u0026amp; behaviour\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Organizational%20theory%20\u0026amp;%20behaviour%20%5BKJU%5D%22\"\u003eKJU\u003c\/a\u003e], Management \u0026amp; management techniques [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Management \u0026amp; management techniques\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Management%20\u0026amp;%20management%20techniques%20%5BKJM%5D%22\"\u003eKJM\u003c\/a\u003e], Occupational \u0026amp; industrial psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Occupational \u0026amp; industrial psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Occupational%20\u0026amp;%20industrial%20psychology%20%5BJMJ%5D%22\"\u003eJMJ\u003c\/a\u003e], Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265289703704,"sku":"9780521865678","price":60.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521865678i.jpg?v=1692021405","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-teams-to-knots-activity-theoretical-studies-of-collaboration-and-learning-at-work-hardback-9780521865678","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}