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New Forms of Learning in Co-configuration Work

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New Forms of Learning in Co-configuration Work

Abstract/Description

Focuses on the theories and study of organizational and workplace learning. Outlines the landscape of learning in co‐configuration settings, a new type of work that includes interdependency between multiple producers forming a strategic alliance, supplier network, or other such pattern of partnership which collaboratively puts together and maintains a complex package, integrating material products and services. Notes that learning in co‐configuration settings is typically distributed over long, discontinuous periods of time. It is accomplished in and between multiple loosely interconnected activity systems and organizations operating in divided local and global terrains and representing different traditions, domains of expertise, and social languages. Learning is crucially dependent on the contribution of the clients or users. Asserts that co‐configuration presents a twofold learning challenge to work organizations and outlines interventionist and longitudinal approaches taken.

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Date

Volume

16

Issue

1-2

Pages

11-21

Resource type

Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

Published Text

Scholarship genre

Methodological

Open access/full-text available

Yes

Peer reviewed

Yes

ISSN

1758-7859

Citation

Engeström, Y. (2004). New Forms of Learning in Co-configuration Work. Journal of Workplace Learning, 16(1–2), 11–21. https://doi.org/10.1108/13665620410521477

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