Organizing Processes in Complex Activity Networks
以活动理论分析组织作为活动系统网络,通过对一家高科技公司的案例研究,提出视角构建、视角采纳和视角塑造是整合不同专家群体、协调多重目标的关键过程。
This paper analyses practice as activity and develops a frame-work for analysing organizations as networks of activity systems. The approach is applied in a study of a high technology company. Key tensions in the organization are outlined and a comparative study of three strategy development teams is described. Activity theory provides the means to analyse organizations as distributed, decentred and emergent knowledge systems. It is suggested that the processes of `perspective making', `perspective taking' and `perspective shaping' are central to the integration of different expert groups that need to co-operate in the pursuit of multiple, perhaps competing, objectives.