Cognition and Communication at WorkCognition and Communication at Work, edited by Engestrom Yrjo Middleton David. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Abstract

The book ‘Cognition and Communication at Work,’ edited by Yrjo Engestrom and David Middleton, is a useful portal for management scholars who may be searching for grounded theory that aids them in understanding the microscopic linkages between knowledge and organization. As the title suggests, there is a heavy emphasis in this book on the communicative bases of work activity. This emphasis means that the focus of many of the chapters is on how distributed work is coordinated and how collective activities are accomplished via language and specialized nomenclatures.