Producing Knowledge: The Use of the Project Team as a Vehicle for Knowledge and Skill Acquisition for Software Employees

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-245

  Marks, Abigail ^a   Lockyer, Cliff ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Professions; Skills; Software workers; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442503594     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014383104042498     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Alvesson, M. (2000) 'Social Identity and the Problem of Loyalty in Knowledge Intensive Companies', Journal of Management Studies 27(8): 1103-23.
2. Amakawe, U.P., J.C. Hall and S.M. Schor (2000) 'Knowledge Related Skills and Effective Career Management', International Journal of Manpower 21(7): 566-79.
3. Arthur, M.B. and D.M. Rousseau (1996) The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4. Barrett, R. (1999) 'The Labour Process of Software Development in the Australian Information Industry', paper presented at the 17th Annual Labour Process Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, 30 March-1 April.
5. Barrett, R. (2001) 'Labouring Under an Illusion? The Labour Process of Software Development in the Australian Information Industry', New Technology, Work and Employment 16(1):18-34.
6. Bell, D. (1973) The Coming of Post Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books.
7. Blackler, F. and S. McDonald (2000) 'Power, Mastery and Organizational Learning', Journal of Management Studies 37(6): 833-51.
8. Blackler, F., M.I. Reed and A. Whitaker (1993) 'Editorial Introduction: Knowledge Workers and Contemporary Organizations', Journal of Management Studies 30(6): 851-62.
9. Bloor, G. and P. Dawson (1994) 'Understanding Professional Culture in Organizational Context', Organization Studies 15(2): 275-95.
10. Bott, F., A. Coleman, J. Eaton and D. Rowland (1995) Professional Issues in Software Engineering, 2nd edn. London: UCL Press.
11. Carmel, E. and S. Sawyer (1998) 'Packages Software Development Teams: What Makes Them Different?', Information Technology and People 11(1): 7-19.
12. Curtis, B.K., V. Shen and N. Iscoe (1987) 'On Building Software Process Models Under the Lamppost', pp. 96-103 in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering.
13. Drucker, P. (1993) Post-Capitalist Society. New York: Harper.
14. Du Gay, P. (1996) Consumption and Identity at Work. London: Sage.
15. Engestrom, Y., R. Engestrom and T. Vahaaho (1999) 'When the Centre Does not Hold: The Importance of Knotworking', pp. 342-67 in S. Chaiklin, M. Hedegaard and U. Jensen (eds) Activity Theory and Social Practice: Cultural-Historical Approaches. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
16. Fletcher, J.K. (1996) 'A Relational Approach to the Protean Career', pp. 105-31 in D.T Hall et al. (eds) The Career is Dead - Long Live the Career. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
17. Flood, P.C., T. Turner, N. Ramamoorthy and J. Pearson (2001) 'Causes and Consequences of Psychological Contracts among Knowledge Workers in the High Technology and Financial Services Industries', International Journal of Human Resource Management 12(7): 1152-65.
18. Foote, D. (2000) 'Keeping Your Staff Happy? Think "Career"', Computerworld 34(41): 38-9.
19. Frese, M. (2000) 'The Changing Nature of Work', pp. 424-39 in N. Chmiel (ed.) Introduction to Work and Organizational Psychology. Oxford: Blackwell.
20. Guindon, R. and B. Curtis (1988) 'Control of Cognitive Processes during Design: What Tools Would Support Software Designers?', pp. 263-8 in Proceedings of CHI'88. New York: ACM.
21. Hall, D.T. (1976) Careers in Organizations. Pacific Paisades, CA: Goodyear.
22. Hall, D.T., J.P. Briscoe and K.E. Kram (1997) 'Identities, Values and Learning in the Protean Career', pp. 321-5 in C.L. Cooper and S.E. Jackson (eds) Creating Tomorrow's Organizations: A Handbook for Future Research in Organizational Behaviour. New York: Wiley.
23. Handy, C. (1995) Beyond Certainty: The Changing World of Organization. London: Hutchinson.
24. Heckscher, C. (1995) White-Collar Blues. Management Loyalties in an Age of Corporate Restructuring. New York: Basic Books.
25. Khan, M.B. and S. Kukalis (1990) 'MIS Professionals: Education and Performance', Information and Management 19: 249-55.
26. Kraft, P. and S. Dubnoff (1986) 'Job Content, Fragmentation, and Control in Computer Software Work', Industrial Relations 25(2): 184-96.
27. Lloyd, C. and H. Newell (2000) 'Selling Teams to the Sales Force: Teamwork in the UK Pharmaceutical Industry', pp. 183-202 in S. Procter and F. Mueller (eds) Teamworking. London: Macmillan.
28. Mallon, M. (1998) 'The Portfolio Career: Pushed or Pulled to It?', Personnel Review 27(5): 361-77.
29. Marks, A. and D. Scholarios (forthcoming) 'Identifying a Profession: The Creation of Professional Identities within Software Work', Journal of Management Studies (submitted for publication).
30. Procter, S. and F. Mueller, eds (2000) Teamworking. London: Macmillan.
31. Quintas, P. (1991) 'Engineering Solutions to Software Problems: Some Institutional and Social Factors Shaping Change', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 3(4): 359-76.
32. Ramsay, H. (1999) 'Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind', paper presented to the Worklife 2000 Programme, Sweden.
33. Rasmussen, B. and B. Johansen (2001) 'New Workers in a New Economy', paper presented at the WES Conference, Nottingham, 11-13 September.
34. Reed, M. (1996) 'Expert Power and Control in Late Modernity', Organization Studies 17(4): 573-98.
35. Riain, S.O. (1998) Networking for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace. Work, Difference and Social Change: Two Decades After Braverman's 'Labour and Monopoly Capital'. Binghamton, NY: Department of Sociology, State University of New York.
36. Sawyer, S., J. Farber and R. Spillers (1997) 'Supporting the Social Processes of Software Development', Information Technology and People 10(1): 46-62.
37. Scarborough, H. (1993) 'Problem-Solutions in the Management of Information Systems Expertise', Journal of Management Studies 30(6): 939-55.
38. Scarborough, H. (1996) 'Understanding and Managing Expertise', pp. 23-47 in H. Scarborough (ed.) The Management of Expertise. London: St Martin's Press.
39. Scarborough, H. (1999) 'Knowledge as Work: Conflicts in the Management of Knowledge Workers', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 11(1): 5-16.
40. Sonnentag, S. (1995) 'Excellent Software Professionals: Experience, Work Activities and Perception by Peers', Behaviour and Information Technology 14(4): 289-99.
41. Sturges, J., D. Guest and K. Mackenzie-Davey (2000) 'Who's in Charge? Graduates' Attitudes to and Experience of Career Management and their Relationship with Organizational Commitment', European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology 9(3): 351-70.
42. Tam, Y.M., M. Korczynski and S.J. Frenkel (2002) 'Organizational and Occupational Commitment: Knowledge Workers in Large Corporations', Journal of Management Studies 39(6): 775-801.
43. Walz, D.B., J.J. Elam and B. Curtis (1993) 'The Dual Role of Conflict in Group Software Requirements and Design Activities', Communication of the ACM 36(10): 63-76.
44. Waterson, P.E., C.W. Clegg and C.M. Axtell (1997) 'The Dynamics of Work Organization, Knowledge and Technology during Software Development', International Journal Human-Computer Studies 46: 79-101.