Techniken und Praktiken der Zusammenarbeit in transnationalen Projekten der Softwareentwicklung

面对日益国际化的工作，跨国分布的工作协作成为一个日益相关的科学和社会话题。在数字时代，空间分散的工作安排中的协作总是由技术构建的。以前的社会科学研究很少注意到这一点，因为它主要集中在跨国工作对工作条件、工作模式和资格要求的影响。该研究项目通过研究跨国团队中技术结构的协作程序与团队成员特定于专业、组织和文化的工作实践之间的相互作用来解决这一研究差距。本研究的目的是对跨国工作协作结构的技术制度化进行实证探索。技术体制化一词用于描述工作结构和工作程序的两种不同对象化之间的相互关系：它们作为支持协作工作的工具的技术标准和算法的对象化，以及它们以协作工作的相应做法的形式对象化。跨国软件开发项目构成了本研究的经验域。外包和离岸外包--现有的信息基础设施使之更容易实现--尤其用于电子办公(或远程办公)。在电子工作信息技术服务领域，外包和离岸外包比其他任务更重要。外包和离岸外包最重要的IT服务类型是软件开发任务。这使得跨国软件开发项目成为一个特别适合研究跨国工作协作的经验领域。

In the face of growing transnationalisation of work, collaboration within transnational distributed work collabo-ration becomes an increasingly relevant scientific and societal topic. In the digital age collaboration within spatially distributed work arrangements always is structured by technology. Previous social science research has paid little attention to this, since it has been primarily focused on consequences of transnational work on working conditions, work patterns, and qualification requirements. The research project addresses this re-search gap by studying the interaction between the technically structured procedures of collaboration in transnational teams and the team members’ profession-, organization-, and culture-specific work practices. Aim of the research project is to empirically explore the technical institutionalization of collaboration struc-tures of transnational work. The term technical institutionalization serves to describe an interrelation between two different objectifications of work structures and working procedures: their objectification as technical standards and algorithms of the tools used to support collaborative work, and their objectification in form of corresponding practices of collaborative work. Transnational projects of software-development constitute the empirical domain for the research. Outsourcing and offshoring – options made much easier to realize by the existing information infrastructure – are used in particular for ework (or telework). Within the field of ework IT-services more than other tasks are subject to outsourcing and offshoring. The most important kind of IT-services for outsourcing and offshoring are tasks of software-development. This makes transnational projects of software-development an empirical field especially suited for research on transnational work collaboration.