YRJÖ ENGESTRÖM
Yrjö Engeström
Yrjö Engeström is interested in cultural-historical activity theory and developmental work research in general. Currently, he focuses especially on co-configuration as a new way of organizing work, and expansive learning in multi-activity settings. He studies transformations in work and organizations, combining micro level analysis of discourse and interaction with historical analysis and modeling of organizations as activity systems working through developmental contradictions.
He is Professor of Adult Education and Director of the Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research at University of Helsinki. He is also Professor of Communication at University of California, San Diego, where he serves as Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition from 1990 to 1995. He is Honorary Professor in the School of Education at University of Birmingham, UK.
His current research is focused on health care organizations, a bank, and a telecommunications company striving toward new forms of co-configuration and knotworking.
More information about Yrjö Engeström: http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/engestro/
