Organizational boundaries and beyond

Understanding and supporting emergent and temporary collaboration across and beyond community and organizational boundaries: Workshop

The way the Computer Supported Cooperative work (CSCW) community talks about, defines and investigates ‘work’ has changed since the early workplace studies. In the current literature, work has been described as being distributed, cross-organizational and multi-actor dependent, volunteer-based, fleeting, opportunistic, in-between and community-based. Collaborative work has also been examined in ...

Collaborative Research Across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries

Scientific and engineering research increasingly involves multidisciplinary collaboration, sometimes across multiple organizations. Technological advances have made such crossboundary projects possible, yet they can carry high coordination costs. This study investigated scientific collaboration across disciplinary and university boundaries to understand the need for coordination in these collab...

Inter-Organizational Knowledge Community Building: Sustaining or Overcoming Organizational Boundaries?

Various studies focus on general networks within and between organizations, but strongly focused studies on knowledge sharing through social networks and communities within specific domains that are of critical relevance to the R&D organization are hard to find. Therefore, the argument presented here is explored through an empirical case study on inter-organizational knowledge community buildin...

Telework: Working Beyond Organizatinoal Boundaries

CAST 2008: Beyond the Boundaries

For years, people have appealed to engineering as the dominant metaphor for how software testing should be done. Yet there are many other metaphors that could provide value to learning about patterns and principles in software testing. As professional testers and nonprofessional musicians, we observe that music affords such a metaphor. What are the parallels between music and testing—especially...