Accelerating Collaboration With Social Tools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948721 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Mack (Pitney Bowes (France)), Dina Mehta |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 2005 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 146-152 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1559-8918.2005.tb00015.x |
| OpenAlex | W2157710161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
As more and more corporate ethnographic work is crossing international borders, we are increasingly collaborating with teams that are spread across the globe. As a result, we need tools that enable us to work across boundaries. Since early 2004, the authors have been collaborating on a research project developed by an American company seeking to develop solutions specific to the Indian market. One of us, an Indian sociologist, led a team of ethnographers in India, while the other, an American anthropologist, managed research and analysis for concept development in the US. While all of the US -based team members spent time in the field in India during the project, integrating the teams into the same “brainspace” was a challenge. This paper describes how we used social tools to enable each set of team members to understand the work being done on the other side of the world
Engineering ethics · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Globe · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Computer Science · Engineering · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2020 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |