Work-arounds and Boundary Crossing in a High Tech Optronics Company: The Role of Co-operative Workflow Technologies

dc.contributor.authorHayes, Niall
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-06T06:53:03Z
dc.date.available2020-06-06T06:53:03Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.date.issued2000
dc.description.abstractThis study examines how some employeescoped with the exceptions that they encountered withtheir on-going use of a co-operative workflowtechnology in an optronics company. By drawing on thecase material, this paper will indicate thatapproaches which view work as being capable of beingplanned and managed through the formal authority ofthe hierarchy are insufficient. Instead, this paperwill suggest that exception handling, work-arounds andimprovisation are more characteristic of humanactivity. Computer supported co-operative work will beconceptualised as being embedded in a dynamicrelationship between the context it is situatedwithin, and the actors that engage in it. Theprinciples underlying ethnography have informed theresearch approach.de
dc.identifier.doi10.1023/A:1008795025075
dc.identifier.pissn1573-7551
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008795025075
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3568
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 9, No. 3-4
dc.relation.ispartofseriesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
dc.subjectcollaborative workflow technology
dc.subjectCSCW
dc.subjectethnography
dc.subjectexception handling
dc.subjectimprovisation
dc.subjectinterpretive study
dc.subjectwork-arounds
dc.titleWork-arounds and Boundary Crossing in a High Tech Optronics Company: The Role of Co-operative Workflow Technologiesde
dc.typeText/Journal Article
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