From teams to nodes. Theoretical and activity studies of cooperation and training in the labor process. Engestrem Yu.

The authors of many management works extol the dignity of the teams, considering them a humane and effective way to organize labor and training. In this book, based on a number of many years of deep research of teams in the United States and Finland, it is shown that the team is not a universal form of cooperation that could work at any time of history.

teams should be considered in their specific contexts of activity, that is, included in the historical development of labor. Today, static teams are increasingly replaced by fluid forms or nodes arising around elusive objects that require and give rise to new forms of expansive learning and distributed activities. This book develops a special complex of conceptual tools that allow analyzing and designing transformations in joint work and training.

The book is addressed to specialists involved in the problems of adult education and the methodology of labor research in organizations, as well as all those interested in training in the process of labor Activities.