The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Designing Complex Organizations
Designing Complex Organizations
European Journal of Information Systems - Special section: PACIS 2004
Email overload at work: an analysis of factors associated with email strain
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Coordination in Fast-Response Organizations
Management Science
Journal of Management Information Systems
Coordination in collective intelligence: the role of team structure and task interdependence
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Relational Model of How High-Performance Work Systems Work
Organization Science
Coordination in innovative design and engineering: observations from a lunar robotics project
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Evolving Work Routines: Adaptive Routinization of Information Technology in Healthcare
Information Systems Research
Communication content relations to coordination and trust over time: a computer game perspective
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
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This paper proposes a model of how coordinating mechanisms work, and tests it in the context of patient care. Consistent with organization design theory, the performance effects of boundary spanners and team meetings were mediated by relational coordination, a communication- and relationship-intensive form of coordination. Contrary to organization design theory, however, the performance effects of routines were also mediated by relational coordination. Rather than serving as areplacement for interactions, as anticipated by organization design theory, routines work byenhancing interactions among participants. Likewise, all three coordinating mechanisms, including routines, were found to be increasingly effective under conditions of uncertainty.