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Emerging Collaboration Routines in Knowledge-Intensive Work Processes: Insights from Three Case Studies

Emerging Collaboration Routines in Knowledge-Intensive Work Processes: Insights from Three Case Studies
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Author(s): Burak Sari (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands), Hermann Loeh (UniBw München, Germany)and Bernhard R. Katzy (UniBw München, Germany)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 15
Source title: Advancing Collaborative Knowledge Environments: New Trends in E-Collaboration
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ned Kock (Texas A&M International University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-459-8.ch003

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Abstract

This article aims to identify how knowledge workers develop their own collaboration strategies and techniques for getting their work done in complex, dynamic knowledge intensive work environments. Three case studies have been conducted to explore the nature of routines in different collaborative working settings as they provide sufficient detail to better understand the actual state and problems regarding collaborative work processes among knowledge workers. Evidences from these cases show that coordination and control of projects, tasks, information, and little support by collaboration tools in all work patterns seem to be the biggest issues and there is a need for better understanding of collaboration culture as well as harmonious and integrated redesign of collaboration routines with new collaborative working environment technologies. The analysis of the cases also shows that there are considerable differences in ways of how actors communicate and coordinate their work which leads varying degrees of quality in knowledge intensive work. The results can be used to achieve a smoother collaborative working phase through innovative technical developments.

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