New Forms of Learning in Co-configuration Work

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Title

New Forms of Learning in Co-configuration Work

Abstract/Description

Focuses on the theories and study of organizational and workplace learning. Outlines the landscape of learning in co‐configuration settings, a new type of work that includes interdependency between multiple producers forming a strategic alliance, supplier network, or other such pattern of partnership which collaboratively puts together and maintains a complex package, integrating material products and services. Notes that learning in co‐configuration settings is typically distributed over long, discontinuous periods of time. It is accomplished in and between multiple loosely interconnected activity systems and organizations operating in divided local and global terrains and representing different traditions, domains of expertise, and social languages. Learning is crucially dependent on the contribution of the clients or users. Asserts that co‐configuration presents a twofold learning challenge to work organizations and outlines interventionist and longitudinal approaches taken.

Author/creator

Engeström, Yrjö

Date

2004

In publication

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volume

16

Issue

1-2

Pages

11-21

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Methodological

Keywords

learning

organizations

organizational learning

learning theory

personnel training

Open access/full-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

1758-7859

DOI

10.1108/13665620410521477

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Emerald Insight)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (via Academia.edu)

Citation

Engeström, Y. (2004). New Forms of Learning in Co-configuration Work. Journal of Workplace Learning, 16(1–2), 11–21. https://doi.org/10.1108/13665620410521477

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Solidarity-Driven Codesign: Evolving Methodologies for Expanding Engagement with Familial & Community Expertise

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