Twitter is the new Web 2.0 hype in the media. Techies, politicians, family members and many more use Twitter to keep in touch with their interest groups, their voters or their beloved ones. Drawing on Computer Supported Work Research, we ask what Twitter can achieve for us at the work place. On...

Die Deutsche Post AG hat mit der Unterzeichnung des Tarifvertrages Nr. 462/463zum 1.9.1994 mit der Deutschen Postgewerkschaft vereinbart, durch die Einführungvon Gruppenarbeit im Zustelldienst neue Arbeitsformen zu erproben. Die Erprobungumfaßt mit dem 5-Tage-Modell (Rolli-Modell), dem...

Vor mehr als zehn Jahren Anfang der 90er hat dieDiskussion um Lean Production in zahlreichen Unternehmenzur Einführung von Gruppen- oder Teamarbeitgeführt. Fragt man heute dort nach, was aus Gruppenarbeitgeworden ist, bekommt man zwei unterschiedlicheAntworten...

Building on prior research on distributed teams that has identified physical and temporal distance as impediments to collaboration and relationship development, this paper explores how and why we treat geographically distant others differently from those who are proximal. According to construal...

Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...