From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work

by Yrjö Engeström

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521148499
• ISBN13: 9780521148498
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"