Contestation about Collaboration: Discursive Boundary Work among Professions

Contestation and stereotypes among software engineers

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a qualitative study of software engineers’ perception of dress code, career, organizations, and of managers. Design/methodology/approach – The software engineers interviewed work in three European and two US companies. The research is based on ethnographic data, gathered in two longitudinal studies during the period 2001-2006. The...

Discursive Approaches to Understanding Teacher Collaboration: Policy Into Practice

Perceptions of Presence: Discursive and Embodied Experiences in Global Collaboration

When working in globally distributed settings, the perception of presence in collaboration and the use of technology directly impact how people are able to act in daily work practices. In this paper, we want to identify new ways to transform the way people think about presence in global collaboration, with the aim of improving the collaborative possibility for working closely with remote collea...

Boundary objects and organizational knowledge: A discursive perspective

It is posited that boundary objects, as inscribed artefacts, can be thought of as forms of text. In this paper a discourse-analytic framework is employed to explore the processes of sharing knowledge across boundaries. Three discursive approaches are used to re-analyze existing contributions to the boundary objects literature. First, ‘intertextual analysis’ (Allen, 2000) is applied to Brown’s (...

Talk About Rice: A Discursive Approach to Studying Culture

The paper examines the ways in which people talk about others of different culture or ethnic origin. I analyse interview talk of the British W.W.II veterans about their experiences at the prisoners of war camp in Japan and recent activities of reconciliation. Proposed is a discursive approach to the study of culture and cross-cultural communication, in comparison to work in cultural anthropolog...