Work as coordination and coordination as work: A process perspective on FLOSS development projects

Coordination in work teams has been a topic of perennial interest in organizational studies. The starting point of much of the literature is a conceptual separation between the work itself, on the one hand, and activities undertaken to coordinate the work, on the other, labelled articulation work or coordination mechanisms. We suggest that the analytic duality between work and coordination arises in part from an information processing perspective on work that assumes an input, process and outcome model.