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.... interdependent and yet distributed activities of a cooperative effort from degenerating into chaos requires, in sociological terms, the additional or secondary activities of alignment, coordination, integration, in short, what Anselm Strauss and his colleagues have called articulation work [STR 85a; GER 86] 4.4. The distinction between cooperative work and articulation work is a deviously slippery one. Articulation work is not another kind of action. One cannot create a taxonomy in which actions are neatly categorized as either cooperative work or articulation work. Cooperative work and ....

....On one hand, Anselm Strauss consistently uses the term articulation work in the sense of first order articulation work. To him the granularity of the concept is defined by the concept of tasks and articulation work is simply same same the articulation of tasks as he also puts it [STR 85a] By contrast, Gerson and Star do not treat task as a black box; they open up the box and generalize the concept of articulation work to denote the ongoing adjustment of action in view of inexorable contingencies: the concretization, instantiation, adaptation, modification, etc. of routines, ....

STRAUSS, ANSELM L.: `Work and the division of labor,' The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, 1985a, pp. 1-19.

.... in different contexts has been their ability to negotiate cooperation and collaboration between various individuals across distances and disciplines [3] This characteristic of a collaboratory goes beyond articulation work to manage the distributed nature of cooperative dynamics in CSCW systems [4]. For interdisciplinary and cross distance issues also entail a myriad range of human factors, including politics, policies, real work practices, and personal and cultural behavioral protocols that get negotiated when collaboratories are formed. This draws attention towards an inherent nature of ....

A. Strauss, "Work and the Division of Labor," The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1985, pp. 1-19.

....work arrangement they become mutually interdependent in their work. In order to get the work done, they have to align, schedule, integrate, etc. their individual activities. In other words they have to coordinate their work along the salient dimensions of who, what, where, when, how, etc. [19]. Coordination activities cover aspects such as scheduling, meshing, and allocating resources, negotiating resource allocations, monitoring work activities, resolving inconsistencies, etc. Our understanding of coordination here is close to what Strauss, Schmidt, and others define as articulation ....

....resources, negotiating resource allocations, monitoring work activities, resolving inconsistencies, etc. Our understanding of coordination here is close to what Strauss, Schmidt, and others define as articulation work , although we do not include aspects like making sense of information [19]. Coordination Mechanisms is a conceptual framework for conceptualizing coordination activities and the mechanisms invented for supporting these. The aim has been to develop a set of concepts for analyzing and understanding coordination artifacts i real world work settings [4] and to develop a ....

A. Strauss, "Work and the Division of Labor," The Sociological Quarterly, 26, no. 1, 1985 pp. 1-19.

....To deal with this source of confusion and disorder, individual and yet interdependent activities must be coordinated, scheduled, aligned, meshed, integrated, etc. in short: articulated. 4 That is, the orderly accomplishment of cooperative work requires what has been termed articulation work (Strauss et al. 1985; Gerson and Star, 1986; Strauss, 1988; Strauss, 1994) Proposition 1. Cooperative work is constituted by the interdependence of multiple actors who interact through changing the state of a common field of work, whereas articulation work is constituted by the need to restrain the distributed ....

....under specified. Thus, a protocol will typically be specified incrementally, at least to some extent, while it is executed in the course of the work. Furthermore, a protocol can be invoked implicitly, without any explicit announcements, for instance by certain actors taking certain actions (Strauss, 1985; Schl, 1996) Thus, in order to allow for implicit understanding of certain aspects of articulation work as well as incomplete and not yet complete specification, and also in order not to force actors to have to specify a coordination Schmidt and Simone Coordination mechanisms 33 mechanism more ....

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Strauss, Anselm (1985): Work and the Division of Labor. The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 1-19.

.... data, but actors must locally and severally jointly construct shared meanings for this data, and even when such shared meanings are arrived at, they are still seen as contingent, local, and temporal (cf. Bannon B dker, 1997) d) Work requires articulation The importance of articulation work (Strauss, 1985) the work that is required to be done in order for any division of labour to function smoothly in understanding how people manage to co operatively accomplish their work is another insight that has been investigated in some detail in CSCW work (Schmidt Bannon, 1992) This is of some ....

Strauss, Anselm. 1985. Work and the Division of Labor. The Sociological Quarterly 26 (1): 1-19.

....by multiple actors who are interdependent in their work and who therefore have to divide, allocate, coordinate, schedule, mesh, interrelate, integrate, etc. in short: articulate their individual activities: Who is doing what, where, when, how, by means of which, under which constraints (Strauss, 1985; Gerson and Star, 1986; Strauss, 1988) Now, because multiple actors are involved, cooperative work is characterized by an inexorable and inescapable aspect of distributed decision making, not only in the usual sense that activities are distributed in time and space, but also and more ....

....and Wynn, 1984; Suchman, 1987) Protocols are, to some extent, only specified in the course of the work. Furthermore, a protocol and the whole equipage of ensuing stipulations can be invoked implicitly, without any explicit announcements, for instance by certain actors taking certain actions (Strauss, 1985; Sch l, 1994) Thus, in order to allow for implicit understanding of certain aspects of articulation work as well as incomplete and not yet complete specification, and also in order not to force actors to explicitly specify a mechanism of interaction to a larger degree than deemed necessary, the ....

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....of articulation work, the paper presents a framework that is aimed at exploring and analysing this complexity of articulation. Basic principles from activity theory constitute an appropriate approach in this respect. 1 Introduction The concept of articulation work was introduced by Anselm Strauss (Strauss 1985; Strauss, et al. 1985; Strauss 1988; Strauss 1993) as an analytical framework to understand and explore the interwoven nature of mutually dependent actions of collaborating actors. Taking Articulation Work Seriously 2 5. September 1997 This concept is introduced in the research field of CSCW ....

....work, the paper presents a framework that is aimed at exploring and analysing this complexity of articulation. Basic principles from activity theory constitute an appropriate approach in this respect. 1 Introduction The concept of articulation work was introduced by Anselm Strauss (Strauss 1985; Strauss, et al. 1985; Strauss 1988; Strauss 1993) as an analytical framework to understand and explore the interwoven nature of mutually dependent actions of collaborating actors. Taking Articulation Work Seriously 2 5. September 1997 This concept is introduced in the research field of CSCW by Schmidt and Bannon ....

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