TY - BOOK ID - 145695166 TI - The new knowledge workers PY - 2012 SN - 1280493119 9786613588340 0857933116 PB - Cheltenham [England] : Edward Elgar Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Knowledge workers. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145695166 AB - This critical ethnographic study of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive organization workplaces focuses on the issues of timing and schedules, the perception of formality and trust and distrust in software development as well as motivation and occupational identity among software engineers. The book is a cross-cultural, comparative study of American and European high-tech workplaces that addresses the issues currently of interest to both Academia and to practice and provides a rare international comparison of organizations from both sides of the Atlantic. Its conclusions shed new light o ER -