Engeström’s activity-system model connects subject, object, tools, community, rules, and division of labor. It makes the organization of collective work visible when examining recurring failures. The diagram structures inquiry; evidence about practice and history is still needed to explain a disturbance or justify redesign.
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- CategoryParadigms, Traditions & Metatheories
- DomainOrganization & Structure
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
Related entry
Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.