THE EVOLUTION OF COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY IN THE FIRM

Author(s):  
Neil M Kay
2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-190
Author(s):  
Stefan Knapik

Abstract The pedagogical treatise is generally understood to be a manual of singing or instrumental techniques that is largely practical in approach, yet a critique of violin tutor books dating from the early twentieth century, especially those written by the renowned violinists Joseph Joachim (writing in conjunction with Andreas Moser), Leopold Auer, and Carl Flesch, reveals an extensive engagement with a range of wider ideologies. In a bid to trump the supposedly deadening effects of both a historicism resulting from the availability of earlier treatises, as well as the overly scientific approach taken by contemporaneous treatises, these violinist-authors embrace metaphysical ideals of mind or vitality, and the result is a model of violin playing founded on the concept of “singing tone,” an idea developed out of nineteenth-century notions of song/melody as embodying a vital essence. As did Wagner, in his 1869 essay Über das Dirigiren, writers play with the idea that theoretical and performative categories, such as tempo, phrasing, dynamics, vibrato, and types of bow stroke, both conflict with each other and find a deeper unity in a subjectivist ideal of tone. The approach of these texts is not explorative, however, so much as a rather defensive championing of the idea of mind or vitality: ideologies of self, health, and nationalism ultimately prevail over an engagement with historical evidence in Moser's discussion of ornaments, and Auer's intolerance of any mitigating influence that might qualify the artist's final word on aesthetic matters is reminiscent of a reductive, Nietzschean ideal of vitality. Nevertheless, writers struggle to reconcile it with the messier realities of performing, as an embodied and collaborative activity, and subsequently what speaks louder in their texts are anxieties over affronts to notions of self, expressed using pathological notions common to the era. Whereas at times writers encourage students of the violin to share in their lauding of vitalistic ideals, more often than not they try to impose disciplinary measures as a means of inculcating them.


Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (15) ◽  
pp. 1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Loureiro ◽  
Miika Rämä ◽  
Raymond Sterling ◽  
Marco Cozzini ◽  
Meritxell Vinyals ◽  
...  

Workshop organized by INDIGO project as a collaborative activity among EU funded projects in the area of District Heating and Cooling. The objective of the workshop was twofold: (1) to create a cluster of European funded projects working in the area of District Energy Systems; and (2) to create a networking opportunity in which to share experiences on the results and difficulties of the researches, and to identify synergies.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suci Fatmawati

Administration is a collaborative activity or process of integrating everything by utilizing all human resources as well as possible who are incorporated in educational organizations to achieve predetermined educational goals to be effective and efficient.


This chapter offers a cultural historical perspective on a multi-site dispersed community of collaboratively engaged university and community partners called University-Community Links (UC Links). The chapter begins by defining the concept of university-community engagement and moves to an ethnographic description of university-community engagement as a sociotechnical activity system. Viewing UC Links in this conceptual framework enables us to examine the educational activity between K-12 and university students and how localized activity is implemented and developed through collaborative activity among adults working together across the multiple boundaries of local institutions. The chapter explores how those localized efforts are both extended and limited, influenced, and enhanced by collaborative activity at much broader organizational and macrosocial planes of activity. This multi-layered analysis begins with the early experience of a young participant at La Clase Mágica, one of the two original Solana Beach, California sites out of which the broader UC Links initiative emerged.


Author(s):  
Mark E. Frisse ◽  
Karl E. Misulis

Healthcare delivery is a collaborative activity involving many individuals playing myriad roles. Clinical informatics often emphasizes the role of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other staff acting in concert to ensure that key clinical tasks are performed. Only recently have clinical informatics systems begun to model the complex interactions of the team supporting care in the home. Most posthospitalization care and most chronic care management require coordination across teams working from delivery organizations and both the formal and informal teams delivering care in the home. This degree of coordination requires targeted communication and maintenance of both a care record and a care plan.


2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Alier Forment ◽  
Xavier De Pedro ◽  
Maria Jose Casañ ◽  
Jordi Piguillem ◽  
Nikolas Galanis

What are the requirements for the Wiki engines to be used collaborative learning activities? Can any general-purpose engine be used? Or is there a niche for an educationally oriented crop of wiki engines? Do these educational wikis need to be integrated within the LMS to frame the collaborative activity within the walls of the virtual classroom, or is it preferable to have an external engine? These questions arise to every teacher who is about to plan a wiki-based collaborative learning activity. In this paper, the authors examine the use of wikis in college courses at three universities. The findings of this research are introduced and adopted as new features in two major open source wiki engines used for education: the Wiki module for Moodle 2.0 (as a Wiki engine embedded inside a LMS) and Tiki as independent full-featured Wiki CMS/Groupware engine.


Author(s):  
Julia Kaidalova ◽  
Ulf Siegerroth ◽  
Elżbieta Bukowska ◽  
Nikolay Shilov

In order to achieve Business and IT Alignment (BITA) it is required to capture and analyze both business and IT dimensions of enterprises. In this regard Enterprise Modeling (EM) is acknowledged as one useful mean. One of the central roles during EM is EM practitioner who drives and coordinates the EM project. Conducting EM is a highly collaborative activity that requires considerable skills and experience since EM practitioner has to deal with various challenges throughout the project. Despite a quite wide range of research, EM challenges needs to be further investigated, in particular concerning practical recommendations related to creation and usage of enterprise models. This article presents a framework with challenges and recommendations for EM that is aimed on facilitating business and IT alignment. The empirical base for the study consists of interviews with EM practitioners that have significant experience in EM. In order to achieve Business and IT Alignment (BITA) it is required to capture and analyze both business and IT dimensions of enterprises. In this regard Enterprise Modeling (EM) is acknowledged as one useful mean. One of the central roles during EM is EM practitioner who drives and coordinates the EM project. Conducting EM is a highly collaborative activity that requires considerable skills and experience since EM practitioner has to deal with various challenges throughout the project. Despite a quite wide range of research, EM challenges needs to be further investigated, in particular concerning practical recommendations related to creation and usage of enterprise models. This article presents a framework with challenges and recommendations for EM that is aimed on facilitating business and IT alignment. The empirical base for the study consists of interviews with EM practitioners that have significant experience in EM.


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