Co-constructing globally collaborative spaces: A conceptual study of war room meetings as spaces with placed-based activities
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Co-constructing globally collaborative spaces : A conceptual study of war room meetings as spaces with placed-based activities. / Bjørn, Pernille.
Nordic Contributions in IS Research - Second Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2011, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2011. p. 16-28 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 86 LNBIP).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Co-constructing globally collaborative spaces
T2 - A conceptual study of war room meetings as spaces with placed-based activities
AU - Bjørn, Pernille
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper presents insights from an ethnographic study investigating how globally distributed Danish and Indian engineers co-construct and reconfigure a shared socio-technical collaborative space for global interaction. The globally collaborative space was not persistent a priori but co-constructed and reconfigured through place-based activities forming the connections between people, artifacts, and activities. Global places are temporal in nature, thus only traces of the places can persist outside the place-based activities. We show how the engineers chose to transfer their globally distributed plan into a locally tangible and persistent artifact that was useful for handling the articulation work of engineering. This move produced new challenges related to the geographical distribution of the engineers because the locally tangible plan was not globally available.
AB - This paper presents insights from an ethnographic study investigating how globally distributed Danish and Indian engineers co-construct and reconfigure a shared socio-technical collaborative space for global interaction. The globally collaborative space was not persistent a priori but co-constructed and reconfigured through place-based activities forming the connections between people, artifacts, and activities. Global places are temporal in nature, thus only traces of the places can persist outside the place-based activities. We show how the engineers chose to transfer their globally distributed plan into a locally tangible and persistent artifact that was useful for handling the articulation work of engineering. This move produced new challenges related to the geographical distribution of the engineers because the locally tangible plan was not globally available.
KW - engineers
KW - global engineering
KW - globally collaborative spaces
KW - group-to-group
KW - place
KW - space
KW - War room
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22766-0_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22766-0_4
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:80052310186
SN - 9783642227653
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 16
EP - 28
BT - Nordic Contributions in IS Research - Second Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2011, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -
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