The technology of team navigation
Intellectual teamwork
Designing Complex Organizations
Designing Complex Organizations
Organization Science
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
The human infrastructure of cyberinfrastructure
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Coordinating Expertise Among Emergent Groups Responding to Disasters
Organization Science
A Relational Model of How High-Performance Work Systems Work
Organization Science
Managing nomadic knowledge: a case study of the European social forum
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Managing Organizational Change: Negotiating Meaning and Power-Resistance Relations
Organization Science
NGO collaborations: sharing and pooling projects
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Practice as the Site of Knowing: Insights from the Field of Telemedicine
Organization Science
Progressing to the Center: Coordinating Project Work
Organization Science
Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders
Organization Science
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory
Organization Science
Breaking news on wikipedia: dynamics, structures, and roles in high-tempo collaboration
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
The use of awareness displays for role clarity in distributed workgroups
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Loosely formed patient care teams: communication challenges and technology design
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Sustainable enterprise interoperability from the Activity Domain Theory perspective
Computers in Industry
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Creative Projects: A Less Routine Approach Toward Getting New Things Done
Organization Science
Extending the Information-Processing View of Coordination in Public Sector Crisis Response
International Journal of Electronic Government Research
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Temporary organizations are known to provide flexibility for industries that rely on them, but we know little about their implications for how work is accomplished and coordinated. In this paper, I propose that common portrayals of temporary organizations as ephemeral and unstable are inaccurate: Temporary organizations are in fact organized around structured role systems whose nuances are negotiated in situ. This paper analyzes one type of temporary organization, film projects, exploring the way in which roles both organize immediate work and maintain continuity across different projects. On each film set, role expectations are communicated through practices of enthusiastic thanking, polite admonishing, and role-oriented joking, which enable crew members to learn and negotiate role structures. Two important structural characteristics of film projects provide the organizational context within which coordination takes place: interorganizational career progression and projects as temporary total institutions. By showing how these structural elements and role enactments support one another, this work generates a more complete understanding of the conditions that affect coordination, including role duration, expectations of future interaction, and visibility of work.