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What is Cooperative Task

Chapter 14
Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions
the set of actions to be carried out by a group of people on a cooperative object. Some examples are writing a shared document or taking a decision by voting. The actions are coordinated by the task manager.
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An Approach to Defining Social Processes Based on Social Networks
Giorgio Bruno (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-168-9.ch014
Abstract
SPN is illustrated with the help of a case study concerned with the election of a condominium administrator. SPN basically defines networks of tasks, documents, and teams. Tasks can be individual or cooperative and teams indicate the performers of the tasks. Cooperative tasks are the most important feature of SPN; they rely on cooperative objects, i.e. shared documents, wikis, and voting objects.
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