The work that visualisation conventions do

"...and Do It the Usual Way": Fostering Awareness of Work Conventions in Document-mediated Collaboration

In this paper, we concentrate on how conventions among practitioners are put at work for the sake of cooperation in those work settings where coordination is mediated at a large extent by complex webs of documental artifacts. Our case study focuses on coordinative conventions exhibited in the hospital domain and mediated by compound patient records. We conceive of the provision of document-medi...

The Ethical Work That Regulations Will Not Do

Do Conventions Need To Be Common Knowledge?

Do conventions need to be common knowledge? David Lewis builds this requirement into his definition of a convention. This paper explores the extent to which his approach finds support in the game theory literature. The knowledge formalism developed by Robert Aumann and others militates against Lewis’s approach, because it demonstrates that it is almost impossible for something to become common ...

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Relevance conventions and problem boundaries in work redesign teams

Introduction Participatory and cross-functional teams have become widespread means of assessing organizational requirements and change directions. The quality movement, business process re-engineering and alternative system development methodologies have all contributed to the emergence of this practice (Clement and Van den Basselaar, 1993; Greenbaum and Kyng, 1991; Hammer and Champy, 1993; Kat...