Interaction in the engineering workplace: Examining a network of actors representation

The paper presents a grounded theory model of engineering practice and describes how a theoretical model was obtained through the application of the Gioia Methodology to interviews of engineering practitioners. It then presents data on workplace interaction obtained from an online survey of 247 engineers and shows how the data obtained support propositions derived from the theoretical model.

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