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Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices

Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

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Authors:
  1. Kjeld Schmidt

    1. Dept. Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

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  • Brings together both classic and less well known articles on the phenomena of cooperative work and coordinative practices
  • Provides critical elements of the conceptual foundation of CSCW
  • Includes research carried out in a number of European institutions

Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Progress Report

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. Progress report

    1. Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 3-27

  4. Surveying the Connections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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  5. Surveying the connections

    1. Riding a Tiger, or Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (1991)

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 31-44

    2. Taking CSCW Seriously: Supporting Articulation Work (1992)

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 45-71

    3. The Organization of Cooperative Work (1994)

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 73-91

    4. Coordination Mechanisms (1996)

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 93-131

    5. Of Maps and Scripts (1997)

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 133-148

    6. The Critical Role of Workplace Studies in CSCW (2000)

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 149-156

    7. The Problem with ‘Awareness’ (2002)

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 157-166

    8. Remarks on the Complexity of Cooperative Work (2002)

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 167-199

    9. Ordering Systems (2004)

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 201-251

  6. CSCW Reconsidered

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
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  7. CSCW reconsidered

    1. Formation and Fragmentation

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 255-357

    2. Frail Foundations

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 359-389

    3. Dispelling the Mythology of Computational Artifacts

      • Kjeld Schmidt
      Pages 391-413

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 415-472
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About this book

Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in factories, hospitals, architectural offices, and so on. The economic importance of such coordination systems is enormous but their design often inadequate. The problem is that our understanding of the coordinative practices for which these systems are developed is deficient, leaving systems developers and software engineers to base their designs on commonsensical requirements analyses. The research reflected in this book addresses these very problems. It is a collection of articles which establish a conceptual foundation for the research area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.

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“A book dealing with the history of CSCW and technological development … . This is a valuable and informative piece of work. … this book contributes with a number of very interesting and thought-provoking discussions that force the reader to reflect and examine one’s own position. … I very much appreciate the extensive work that Schmidt has done on collaborative work, both empirically and theoretically, which I find fundamental and a must-read to researchers in the CSCW area.” (Maria Normark, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Vol. 21, 2012)

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  • Dept. Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Kjeld Schmidt

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