For many years, reviewers have argued that organizational communication research is
overly concentrated on microphenomena to the neglect of macrophenomena, but …

This essay compares activity theory (AT) with distributed cognitiontheory (DCOG), asking
what each can do for CSCW. It approaches this task by proposing that theories–when …

The notion of the 'communicative constitution of organization'(CCO) is at the center of a
growing theoretical development within organizational communication studies. CCO …

The enterprise of understanding and designing computer support for collaborative work is
based on assumptions about cooperative behavior and commun. ication and about the ways …

The many failures of IT-based information systems give rise to a strong imperative for
researchers in information systems and neighbour disciplines to create a better …

Pacific Bell conducted a trial of The Coordinator, a tool for computer-supported cooperative
work. The trial group had diverse job functions and was dispersed across a variety of …

The idea of the communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) has gained considerable
attention in organizational communication studies. This rather heterogeneous theoretical …

The history of this special issue of the CSCW Journal goes back to 1997 and a book entitled
''Social Science, Technical Systems and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great …

Organizations have long been treated as stable and fixed entities, defined by concrete
buildings, catchy names, and strategic goals neatly written on paper. The Communicative …

We argue there is still much confusion about what is meant by cooperative work, and
therefore what is meant by CSCW. It does not arise simply where more than one person is …