Organizational learning as a situated routine-based activity in international settings

Organizational Learning in International Organizations

Situated information systems: supporting routine activity in organisations

Information systems in organisations are built to assist human actors to engage in goaldirected work activity. There is a certain traditional approach to information system design which has become crystallised in the standard Information Engineering Methodologies that are widely promulgated by practitioners, consultants and educators. We argue that this traditional approach is informed by a par...

Situated Interaction in Art Settings

This paper describes metaphors and design strategies applied to conceive and develop a hand-held location aware electronic guide for museums and cities that includes a number of situated and contextual aware interaction mechanisms. In particular we describe a design approach based on the situated visiting strategies and the contextual space affordances in order to support the user involvement i...

Ethnography in Organizational Settings*

Burnout in Organizational Settings

Within the last decade, there has been a tremendous surge of interest in the problem of burnout. Although it was virtually unheard of prior to the late 1970s, It suddenly became a very popular topic. Hundreds of articles were written about it, as were numerous books; professional conventions held special sessions on it; and the mass media gave it extensive coverage. The general theme of all the...