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Variations and Commonalities in Processes of Collaboration: The Need for Multi-Site Workplace Studies

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Workplace studies have made a major contribution to the field of CSCW, drawing attention to subtle practices that enable effective collaboration. However, workplace studies typically focus on a single setting, making it difficult to assess the generalisability of the findings. Through a multi-site workplace study, we explore a specific collaborative process, that of the handover which occurs when a patient is transferred from one hospital or ward to another. The study demonstrates that the term ‘handover’ captures a variety of collaborative practices that vary in both their form and content, reflecting aspects of the setting in which they occur. Multi-site workplace studies are shown to be essential for CSCW, not only generating findings that have relevance beyond a single setting but also focusing attention on aspects of work practice that may otherwise go unnoticed.

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Randell, Rebecca; Wilson, Stephanie; Woodward, Peter (2011): Variations and Commonalities in Processes of Collaboration: The Need for Multi-Site Workplace Studies. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 20. DOI: 10.1007/s10606-010-9127-6. Springer. PISSN: 1573-7551. pp. 37-59

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ethnography, handover, healthcare, workplace studies

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