April 20th, 2005
If you introduce a novel factor into an activity system, and the participants of such a system learn a new domain knowledge a secondary contradiction might happen. Those (local) innovations challenge the entire system.
Those secondary contradictions of the activity are the moving force behind disturbances and innovations, and eventually behind the change and development of the system. They cannot be eliminated or fixed with simple remedies. They get aggrevated over time and eventually tend to lead to an overall crisis of the activity system. (Engeström, Learning, working, and imagining, 1990, via Clay Spinuzzi, Tracing genres through organizations, 2003)
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