Works
- Progressing to the center: coordinating project work, Organization Science 22(4), 961 to 979, 2011
- GitLab: work where you want, when you want, Journal of Organization Design 9(1), article 23, 2020
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Open and distributed innovation
Ideas
Progression to the center. With O'Mahony, Dahlander showed that in a collectively managed project people progress by assuming lateral authority over tasks rather than over people, with coordination work mattering more than technical contribution at the later stage. Caveat: One project.