Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices: Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (Cscw)

by Kjeld Schmidt

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848000677
• ISBN13: 9781848000674
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"