Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (240 p.))
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511509605
Content:
How does a telecommunications company function when its right hand often doesn't know what its left hand is doing? How do rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary organizations hold together and perform their knowledge work? In this book, Clay Spinuzzi draws on two warring theories of work activity - activity theory and actor-network theory - to examine the networks of activity that make a telecommunications company work and thrive. In doing so, Spinuzzi calls a truce between the two theories, bringing them to the negotiating table to parley about work. Specifically, about net work: the coordinative work that connects, coordinates, and stabilizes polycontextual work activities. To develop this uneasy dialogue, Spinuzzi examines the texts, trades, and technologies at play at Telecorp, both historically and empirically. Drawing on both theories, Spinuzzi provides new insights into how net work actually works and how our theories and research methods can be extended to better understand it
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521895040
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107564862
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Spinuzzi, Clay Network Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2008 ISBN 9780521895040
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521895040
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
,
Psychology
Keywords:
Telekommunikationswirtschaft
;
Informationsmanagement
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511509605
URL:
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