Writing across Institutional Boundaries: A K-12 and University Collaboration

BIM-based collaboration across organizational and disciplinary boundaries through knotworking

Knotworking is introduced as a new idea and an emerging practice for enhancing collaboration across organizational and team boundaries in BIM-based building projects. Knotworking refers to co-located ‘knots’ that are organized on a temporary basis to solve a specific task, a problem or an open question requiring multi-disciplinary expertise in a building project. The idea of knotworking was ado...

Socialization and innovation: Insights from collaboration across industry boundaries

Article history: Received 25 August 2015 Received in revised form 17 May 2016 Accepted 19 May 2016 Available online 26 May 2016 Industry convergence as a phenomenon forcing organizations to foster more open forms of innovation, such as collaborating with partners from different industries holds high potential for really new innovation. At the same time knowledge originating from a different ind...

Managing collaboration across boundaries in health information technology projects

One reason that it is so difficult to build electronic systems for collecting and sharing health information is that their design and implementation requires clear goals and a great deal of collaboration among people from diverse social and occupational worlds. This paper uses empirical examples from two Australian health informatics projects to illustrate the importance of boundary objects and...

Rethinking K-12 Writing Assessment to Support Best Instructional Practices

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 ...