Start Date
10-12-2017 12:00 AM
Description
The workplace as we know it is undergoing profound change and the operational support mechanisms necessary to facilitate work activities are evolving along a number of distinct dimensions. An increasing number of these activities are inherently collaborative in nature yet we lack a fundamental understanding of the nature of the characteristics of the work that needs to be supported. The focus of this paper is to build an understanding of the key aspects of collaboration that are relevant to the operation of future work systems. This investigation aims to identify the fundamental dimensions underpinning multiparty work activities and to lay the foundations for a coordinative theory for managing flexible work – through IT artifacts and platforms that support the provisioning, facilitation and monitoring of collaborative activities involving the coordination of distributed and heterogeneous labour sources.
Recommended Citation
Russell, Nick; Barros, Alistair; and ter Hofstede, Arthur, "Towards a Coordinative Theory for Flexible Work Collaboration" (2017). ICIS 2017 Proceedings. 22.
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Towards a Coordinative Theory for Flexible Work Collaboration
The workplace as we know it is undergoing profound change and the operational support mechanisms necessary to facilitate work activities are evolving along a number of distinct dimensions. An increasing number of these activities are inherently collaborative in nature yet we lack a fundamental understanding of the nature of the characteristics of the work that needs to be supported. The focus of this paper is to build an understanding of the key aspects of collaboration that are relevant to the operation of future work systems. This investigation aims to identify the fundamental dimensions underpinning multiparty work activities and to lay the foundations for a coordinative theory for managing flexible work – through IT artifacts and platforms that support the provisioning, facilitation and monitoring of collaborative activities involving the coordination of distributed and heterogeneous labour sources.