Emergent Temporal Behaviour and Collaborative Work

Seebeck, Lesley; Kim, Richard M.; Kaplan, Simon M.

doi:10.1007/1-4020-4023-7_7

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“…Within CSCW, temporal aspects of everyday work have been studied extensively, for instance, via studies of time management and temporal coordination (Egger and Wagner 1993;Bardram 2000;Crabtree et al 2003;Reddy et al 2006) and via investigations of rhythms, patterns and temporal trajectories (Reddy and Dourish 2002;Sandusky 2003;Seebeck et al 2005;Nilsson and Hertzum 2005). Furthermore, temporal aspects of collaboration have been analyzed in relation to a number of collaboration technologies such as email (Tyler and Tang 2003) and groupware calendar systems (Lee 2003;Crabtree et al 2003).…”

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Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development

Karasti

Baker

Millerand

2010

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Abstract. This paper addresses the collaborative development of information infrastructure for supporting data-rich scientific collaboration. Studying infrastructure development empirically not only in terms of spatial issues but also, and equally importantly, temporal ones, we illustrate how the long-term matters. Our case is about the collaborative development of a metadata standard for an ecological research domain. It is a complex example where standards are recognized as one element of infrastructure and standard-making efforts include integration of semantic work and software tools development. With a focus on the temporal scales of short-term and long-term, we analyze the practices and views of the main parties involved in the development of the standard. Our contributions are three-fold: 1) extension of the notion of infrastructure to more explicitly include the temporal dimension; 2) identification of two distinct temporal orientations in information infrastructure development work, namely 'project time' and 'infrastructure time', and 3) association of related development orientations, particularly 'continuing design' as a development orientation that recognizes 'infrastructure time'. We conclude by highlighting the need to enrich understandings of temporality in CSCW, particularly towards longer time scales and more diversified temporal hybrids in collaborative infrastructure development. This work draws attention to the manifold ramifications that 'infrastructure time', as an example of more extended temporal scales, suggests for CSCW and e-Research infrastructures.

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Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development

Karasti

Baker

Millerand

2010

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Constructing CSCW: The First Quarter Century

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Bannon

2013

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Interpreting socio‐technical co‐evolution

Kim

Kaplan

2006

Information Technology &Amp; People

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PurposeThis paper seeks to understand how software systems and organisations co‐evolve in practice during an IS engagement. Seeks also to argue that complex adaptive system theory (CAS) provides an excellent lens to study the motor of co‐evolution due to its ability to frame the strategies and reinforcement models of actors and to illustrate this by recounting four narratives of the interaction, selection and adaptation of actors arising from a longitudinal case study of an IS engagement. Then sets out to consider how the complexity of the engagement emerges from the interrelationship of these narratives and how the adaptive behaviour of the various actors is both a response to and a driver of co‐evolution within the engagement.Design/methodology/approachAn interpretive case study was undertaken to examine the implementation of a novel academic scheduling and resource allocation system at a research‐intensive Australian university. The research was conducted over ten months, employing ethnographic methods and semi‐structured interviews. This analysis is conducted within the theoretical framework of CAS.FindingsBy analysing this case study it is demonstrated how CAS can help designers and managers of IS engagements conceptualise the attendant complexities that they encounter. It is also demonstrated how complexity within IS engagements emerges through the interactions and goal‐seeking behaviour of actors employing a variety of context‐bound strategies within neighbourhoods, and how the adaptive behaviour of the various actors is both a response to and a driver of co‐evolution within the engagement.Originality/valueThis work builds on Organization Science, Vol. 10 Nos 3 and 5, by applying CAS theory to organisational and IS research on co‐evolution, where the findings are grounded in a longitudinal case study and not computational models.

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Emergent Temporal Behaviour and Collaborative Work

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development

Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development

Constructing CSCW: The First Quarter Century

Interpreting socio‐technical co‐evolution

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