Network - Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Clay Spinuzzi (Associate Professor)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-89504-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Occupational & industrial psychology Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Postal & telecommunications industries Promotions
LSN:	0-521-89504-9
Barcode:	9780521895040

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