All Edge: Inside the New Workplace Networks
Clay Spinuzzi
Abstract
The way we work is changing. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) have enabled new forms of work organization—necessitating new ways to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate on work. So, increasingly, we find ourselves working in temporary, loosely organized, specialist-heavy, project-oriented teams—all-edge adhocracies. And these adhocracies work very differently from bureaucratic hierarchies, which organized us throughout the 20th century. They have different strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities. This book examines different aspects of all-edge adhocracies: why they a ... More
Keywords: all edge adhocracies, bureaucratic hierarchies, work organization, information technologies, communication technologies, activity theory, knowledge work, distributed work, technical communication
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226236964 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226237015.001.0001 |
