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Organisational Architecture and Learning in an Inter-Professional Context: A Case-Study of an Agile Crowd-Funded Software Project Using Contingent Working

Organisational Architecture and Learning in an Inter-Professional Context: A Case-Study of an Agile Crowd-Funded Software Project Using Contingent Working
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Author(s): Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, UK)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 18
Source title: Handbook of Research on Information Architecture and Management in Modern Organizations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): George Leal Jamil (Informações em Rede, Brazil), José Poças Rascão (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal), Fernanda Ribeiro (University of Porto, Portugal)and Armando Malheiro da Silva (Porto University, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8637-3.ch013

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Abstract

Designing an effective organisational architecture for an undertaking can be considered essential to its success. The way an organisation is designed – or otherwise appears to its workers – will affect the extent to which those workers associated with it can be effective at their jobs. This chapter undertakes a case study into an organisation that is based around contingent working and inter-professionalism. Important things drawn from the study include the importance of the Cloud to distance working, such as teleworking; the identity of the organisation and how workers relate to it; as well as what factors assist on inhibit worker motivation. The study concludes that the organisational structure of the organisation investigated – where different firms perform different tasks, could be seen as best practice in supporting inter-professional environments.

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