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Learning to work together: Collaboration between authorities in economic-crime investigation

Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: 5 Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………. 7 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………….. 9 1.1 Investigating economic crimes in collaboration………………………………….. 9 1.2 Research questions………………………………………………………………...11 2. Charting the terrain for the study – an overview of economic-crime investigation and collaboration between authorities……………………………… 13 2.1 Changing crime here is the perpetrator, but where is the crime?………………. 13 2.2 Changing investigation from action-centered to actor-centered and onwards…. 17 2.3 Changing collaboration from sequential to parallel ……………………………. 23 2.3.1 The desire for and the agony of collaboration……………………………………. 23 2.3.2 Quantitative and qualitative change in collaboration…………………………….. 26 3. Conceptualizing multi-organizational collaboration……………………………….31 3.1 Methodological framework and main concepts…………………………………….31 3.2 Constructing a shared object across organizations…………………………………34 3.3 Expansion of the shared object…………………………………………………… .37 3.4 Synchronization as a challenge for collaboration…………………………………. 40 3.5 Tools in human activity…………………………………………………………….44 4. Change, collaboration and learning…………………………………………………48 4.1 From information exchange to shared knowledge formation……………………… 48 4.2 Learning in practice………………………………………………………………... 52 5. Studying collaboration…………………………………………………………….. 56 5.1 Approaches and methods…………………………………………………………. 56 5.2 Ethnography in crime-investigation settings……………………………………… 58 5.3 Collecting the data………………………………………………………………… 61 5.4 Analyzing the data………………………………………………………………… 66 5.5 Position of the researcher…………………………………………………………. 68 5.6 Generalizability and transferability of the results………………………………… 70 6. Conclusions………………………………………………………………………… 74 6.1 Summaries of the articles………………………………………………………….. 74 6.2 The learning challenges of object construction and collaboration………………… 79 6.3 Learning to manage the object and the collaboration in practice…………………. 88 6.4 The zone of distal development in economic-crime investigation………………… 94 References…………………………………………………………………………………. 99
Author: Anne Puonti
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1540833060
Cites: 94
Cited by: 25
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