Understanding Constellations of Technologies in Use in a Collaborative Nomadic Setting

Rossitto, Chiara; Bogdan, Cristian; Severinson-Eklundh, Kerstin

doi:10.1007/s10606-013-9196-4

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“…According to Rossitto et al (2014), some users can be more familiar than others with the use of a particular technology or a concept. For the mobile workers, the A-FO involved fewer items to appropriate, since they had a more or less flexible way of working prior to relocation, for example, they were used to working without a mouse and a keyboard.…”

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Appropriation of an Activity-based Flexible Office in daily work

Babapour

Karlsson

Osvalder

2018

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In recent years, there has been growing interest in collaborative consumption of office environments and thereby implementation of Activity-based Flexible Offices (A-FOs). Relocating to an A-FO introduces a desk-sharing policy as well as a multitude of new workspaces with different speech policies into the employee's work context. This paper describes how employees appropriate desk-sharing and speech policies in an A-FO. The data were collected over a period of 6 months in a case organization by means of 18 shadowing sessions. The different ways in which employees appropriated the A-FO solution were (i) adopting, experimenting with, or rejecting the desk-sharing policy, and (ii) modes of interaction

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Section: Compatibilitymentioning

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“…The process of appropriating is described as the 'interplay between the situation at hand and in negotiation between proposers and adopters' (Rossitto et al, 2014). This negotiation was observed among the participants not only for appropriating desk-sharing policy but also for introducing and implementing a quiet speech policy.…”

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Appropriation of an Activity-based Flexible Office in daily work

Babapour

Karlsson

Osvalder

2018

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“…Liegl 2014), and there are different motivations that lead people to articulate work practices in different locations (e.g. Rossitto et al 2014 andLiegl 2014). This illustrates how nomadicity, as a notion, can be associated with a spectrum of motivational forces ranging from choice (e.g.…”

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“…Constellations of technologies emerge and dissolve as needed, often in ways that are unique to a particular situation, assemblage of people and physical location: "The concrete instantiation [is] also determined by the people involved, their current activities and the specific technologies they brought to the group, which makes it difficult to predict whether an aligned constellation will reoccur in the same instantiation, and whether it will become a consolidated practice." (Rossitto et al 2014).…”

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Work Practices, Nomadicity and the Mediational Role of Technology

Ciolfi

Carvalho

2014

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The interplay between information practices and information context: The case of mobile knowledge workers

Jarrahi

Thomson

2017

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The knowledge workforce is changing: global economic factors, increasing professional specialization, and rapid technological advancements mean that more individuals than ever can be found working in independent, modular, and mobile arrangements. Little is known about professional information practices or actions outside of traditional, centralized offices; however, the dynamic, unconventional, and less stable mobile work context diverges substantially from this model, and presents significant challenges and opportunities for the accomplishing of work tasks. This article identifies 5 main information practices geared toward mobilizing work, based on in‐depth interviews with 31 mobile knowledge workers (MKWs). It then uses these 5 practices as starting points for beginning to delineate the context of mobile knowledge work. We find that the information practices and information contexts of MKWs are mutually constitutive: challenges and opportunities of their work arrangements are what enable the development of practices that continually (re)construct productive spatial, temporal, social, and material contexts for work. This article contributes to an empirical understanding of the information practices of an increasingly visible yet understudied population, and to a theoretical understanding of the contemporary mobile knowledge work information context.

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Understanding Constellations of Technologies in Use in a Collaborative Nomadic Setting

Cited by 50 publications

References 15 publications

Appropriation of an Activity-based Flexible Office in daily work

Appropriation of an Activity-based Flexible Office in daily work

Work Practices, Nomadicity and the Mediational Role of Technology

The interplay between information practices and information context: The case of mobile knowledge workers

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