OBJECTIVE Modes of governance were compared in ten local mental health networks in diverse contexts (rural/urban and regionalized/non-regionalized) to clarify the governance processes that foster inter-organizational collaboration and the conditions that support them. METHODS Case studies of ten local mental health networks were developed using qualitative methods of document review, semi-str...

PURPOSE The objectives of this study are to describe organizational and safety culture in Canadian intensive care units (ICUs), to correlate culture with the number of beds and physician management model in each ICU, and to correlate organizational culture and safety culture. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, surveys of organizational and safety culture were administered to...

This study examines coordination requirements between activities and the decision to organize them within or across organizational units – whether to place organizational boundaries around them or between them. The study has three elements. First, we review communication, authority and incentive based arguments on the benefits of organizing activities with high coordination requirements within ...

AIM This article is a report of a study that identifies organizational characteristics explaining employee solidarity in the long-term care sector. BACKGROUND Employee solidarity reportedly improves organizations' effectiveness and efficiency. Although general research on solidarity in organizations is available, the impact of the organizational context on solidarity in long-term care setting...

On 24 January 2017, the Trump administration tried to censor various science-related federal agencies, most notably National Park Service. This case study presents emergence of “alternative” Service Twitter accounts that subverted ban and explores how “rogue rangers” share in resist organizational authority through communication practices we interpret as dis/attributing communicative action fig...

This is a chapter about power in groups and organizations. In the following pages, we suggest that the analysis and exploration of the complexities of organizational power by managers and workers is both necessary and useful. We begin by discussing three of the prominent theoretical perspectives on power from the literatures of social and organizational psychology and critical management studie...

This paper introduces a unified theoretical model of organizational agility and investigates the attributes of knowledge-intensive work-design systems, which contribute to achieving and sustaining organizational agility. Even though there has been considerable research on the topic of agility, these studies are not unified regarding their conceptualizations of agility and/or tend to adopt fairl...

This paper explores the role of email in the ambiguous circumstances of an established international partnership which is developing into competition. Using the naturally occurring interaction of a longitudinal ethnographic study, we study the ensuing task and relationship conflicts through the communication medium. Results show that the conflict is facilitated by email, not as an unfortunate s...