The Remote Engineer: Organising global project work

拟议的研究旨在通过对既定组织文献的基本假设提出问题，为管理和组织研究（以下简称：MOS）领域做出贡献和推进；主要是“文化管理”作为一种控制机制的作用。通过在一家跨国制造公司进行扩展的多地点人种学实地调查，可以观察和探索关键趋势。这项研究的一个中心问题是工程和管理专业之间界限的侵蚀。拟建的研究将解决以下研究问题：1。什么是工程项目工作，它是如何在组织的分散办公室和地点进行管理的？在整个组织中使用什么形式的控制？如何对远程项目工作人员进行控制？远程项目工作者符合什么样的职业身份？

The proposed research aims to contribute to and advance the field of management and organisation studies (henceforth: MOS) by problematizing the underlying assumptions of established organisational literature; primarily the role of 'culture management' as a control mechanism. By conducting an extended multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in a multinational manufacturing firm, critical trends can be observed and explored. A central concern for the study is the evidenced erosion of the boundary between the professions of engineering and management.The proposed study will address the following research questions:1. What is engineering project work and how is it managed across dispersed offices and sites of the organisation?2. What forms of control are utilised across the organisation and how is control exercised over remote project workers?3. What professional identity do remote project workers conform to?