Working Misunderstandings : An Ethnography of Project Collaboration in a Multinational Corporation in India / Frauke Mörike.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction, or: From IT Projects to Organisational Ethnography -- 2. Anthropology, Organisational Systems and Misunderstandings -- 3. Fieldwork in Corporate Offices -- Part I: The Organisation as a Social System -- The Organisation as a Social System -- 4. System/Environment Boundaries -- 5. Internal Differentiation: The Offices -- 6. Formal Boundaries, Informal Bridges: Departments and Teams -- Part II: Working Misunderstandings -- Working Misunderstandings -- 7. Working Misunderstandings -- 8. Collaboration as a Working Misunderstanding -- 9. Modus intentional: Date games -- 10. Modus Non-Intentional: Project Representations -- 11. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- References

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Misunderstandings are often perceived as something to be avoided yet delineate an integrative part of everyday work. This book addresses the role that misunderstandings play in collaborative work and, above all, their effects on the organisational result. As exemplified by project collaboration across three offices of a multinational consulting firm in India, Frauke Mörike explores how misunderstandings shape the organisational system and why they prove not only necessary but even productive for organisational functioning. In doing so, she offers new ways to think about collaboration and establishes `misunderstanding' as key factor for an insight into the field of organisational research.

funded by Technische Universität Berlin

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