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From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work
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In this paper, the transformation of work and the role of teams in the creation of knowledge in an industrial work team are discussed, from iron cages to web-on-the-wind.Abstract:
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.read more
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Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research
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Boundary Crossing and Boundary Objects
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature reveals four potential learning mechanisms that can take place at boundaries: identification, coordination, reflection, and transformation, and these mechanisms show various ways in which sociocultural differences and resulting discontinuities in action and interaction can come to function as resources for development of intersecting identities and practices.
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Studies of expansive learning: Foundations, findings and future challenges
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TL;DR: The theory of expansive learning as discussed by the authors has been used in a wide variety of studies and interventions, including the work of Vygotsky, Leont'ev, Il'enkov, and Davydov.
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From design experiments to formative interventions
TL;DR: In this paper, the collective activity system is defined as a unit of analysis, contradictions as a source of change and development, agency as a crucial layer of causality, and transformation of practice as a form of expansive concept formation.
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Collaborative innovation: A Viable Alternative to Market Competition and Organizational Entrepreneurship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use institutional and organizational analysis to compare three major but different public innovation strategies: New Public Management, Neo-Weberian State and Collaborative Governance.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jeanne Lave,Etienne Wenger +1 more
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The fifth discipline - the art and practice of the learning organization
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The consequences of modernity
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