The Collaborative Work Concept and the Information Systems Support: Perspectives for and from Manufacturing Industry

António Brandão Moniz ()

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Abstract: Most of the discussion and controversy on organisation of work concepts has been referenced to the manufacturing industry along the 20th century: it started with the concept of “scientific management” from Taylor, and continued with the new ideas on the importance of human factors as Mayo pointed out in the 1930s. Immediately after the 2nd World War Friedmann studied the human problems related to new manufacturing technologies and automation. And the late 1950 and 1960s were decades of strong debate on the socio-technics with the research at Tavistock Institute of London and the emergence of national programmes on new forms of work organisation. At the end of the last century the concept of collaborative work was developed together with the definition(s) of information systems and organisational design. However, the interest came from other production activities, like the services. This article analyses the approaches developed on these debates on the collaborative work and information system and its application to the manufacturing industry.

Keywords: Collaborative Work; Information Systems; Manufacturing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 J50 O33 L60 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-03, Revised 2007-06
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Published in Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis 2.16(2007): pp. 49-57

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