Coordination Processes in Expert Teams
| Autor: | Hille C. Bruns |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Academy of Management Proceedings. 2015:17386 |
| ISSN: | 2151-6561 0065-0668 |
| Popis: | Despite longstanding research into coordination, it is poorly understood how work is coordinated in teams of collaborating experts. This question is particularly urgent given that modern work entails increasing specialization and more collaboration in diverse teams. This article adds a rigorous examination of how two key drivers of coordination process – difference between specializations and interdependency – impact the coordination process. To sharpen these two drivers, I frame the first as diversity in specialization, and the second as coupling. I then differentiate two categories of activities that experts pursue in their work. The article examines how and why diversity and coupling drive the temporal occurrence of activities over time. It develops a process model that enables an assessment and comparison of coordination processes across teams. The discussion positions the model against theories of team and coordination process. Implications point to the role of the temporal embeddedness and nestedness of activities in organizations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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