Working Misunderstandings
An Ethnography of Project Collaboration in a Multinational Corporation in India
1st Edition
Published on 5. November 2021
318 pages
978-3-8394-5867-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 corporation 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 a key factor of insight for the field of organisational research.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2017
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
30
30 s/w Abbildungen
36 SW-Abbildungen
File size
4,70 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-5867-9 (9783839458679)
DOI
10.14361/9783839458679
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Frauke Mörike
Working Misunderstandings
An Ethnography of Project Collaboration in a Multinational Corporation in India
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04/2025
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Frauke Mörike works as a research fellow at the Institute of Psychology and Ergonomics at Technische Universität Berlin. She studied business information technology in Mannheim and Cambridge, and social anthropology in Heidelberg, Madrid, and Madang (Papua New Guinea). Prior to her PhD in organizational anthropology at the Universität Heidelberg, she worked as an IT-professional for over a decade. Her research interests focus on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in complex organisations, on assistive technologies in the workplace, and on the development of ethnographic methods for systems design and evaluation.
