Works
- Coordination in organizations: an integrative perspective, Academy of Management Annals 3(1), 463 to 502, 2009
- Expecting the unexpected? How SWAT officers and film crews handle surprises, Academy of Management Journal 54(2), 239 to 261, 2011
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Coordination in organizations, with Beth Bechky.
Ideas
Coordination mechanisms. With Bechky, reviewed coordination by mechanism and proposed that routines, meetings, plans, and schedules create three integrating conditions: accountability, predictability, and common understanding. Caveat: A review, read in its abstract only.
Organizational bricolage. With Bechky, found that SWAT officers and film crews handle surprises by shifting roles, reorganizing routines, and reassembling the work. Caveat: A comparative ethnography of two settings; the unit studied is the crew, not the whole organization.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.