Clay Spinuzzi
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226236964
- eISBN:
- 9780226237015
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226237015.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
The way we work is changing. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) have enabled new forms of work organization—necessitating new ways to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate on ...
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The way we work is changing. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) have enabled new forms of work organization—necessitating new ways to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate on work. So, increasingly, we find ourselves working in temporary, loosely organized, specialist-heavy, project-oriented teams—all-edge adhocracies. And these adhocracies work very differently from bureaucratic hierarchies, which organized us throughout the 20th century. They have different strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities. This book examines different aspects of all-edge adhocracies: why they are needed, how they emerged, how they are structured, how they develop, how they interact with other kinds of work organization, and what they need to thrive. Throughout, the book grounds its discussion in case studies of all-edge adhocracies at work, helping readers to understand and apply the principles to their own organizations.Less
The way we work is changing. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) have enabled new forms of work organization—necessitating new ways to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate on work. So, increasingly, we find ourselves working in temporary, loosely organized, specialist-heavy, project-oriented teams—all-edge adhocracies. And these adhocracies work very differently from bureaucratic hierarchies, which organized us throughout the 20th century. They have different strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities. This book examines different aspects of all-edge adhocracies: why they are needed, how they emerged, how they are structured, how they develop, how they interact with other kinds of work organization, and what they need to thrive. Throughout, the book grounds its discussion in case studies of all-edge adhocracies at work, helping readers to understand and apply the principles to their own organizations.
Louise K. Comfort
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691165370
- eISBN:
- 9780691186023
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691165370.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter provides a comparison across the set of 12 earthquake response systems, examining the degree of integration achieved between their internal capacity to adapt to an altered disaster ...
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This chapter provides a comparison across the set of 12 earthquake response systems, examining the degree of integration achieved between their internal capacity to adapt to an altered disaster environment for managing response operations, and their dependence on external resources, knowledge, and skills to implement coherent actions for response and recovery, based on analyses of External/Internal index values. Not surprisingly, the four subsets of earthquake response systems demonstrated capacity for adaptation to varying degrees, but importantly, the variance appeared not to depend on the presence of technical infrastructure alone. Nor did the variance depend on the robustness of the organizational infrastructure of planning and preparedness for a seismic event alone. Rather, the variance appeared to depend on the degree of integration of the technical infrastructure for communication into the organizational plans for seismic risk reduction. This integration of social/organizational planning with the advances of technical communications infrastructure produced a powerful vehicle for expanding communication and information exchange that creates a new pattern of building community resilience to disaster.Less
This chapter provides a comparison across the set of 12 earthquake response systems, examining the degree of integration achieved between their internal capacity to adapt to an altered disaster environment for managing response operations, and their dependence on external resources, knowledge, and skills to implement coherent actions for response and recovery, based on analyses of External/Internal index values. Not surprisingly, the four subsets of earthquake response systems demonstrated capacity for adaptation to varying degrees, but importantly, the variance appeared not to depend on the presence of technical infrastructure alone. Nor did the variance depend on the robustness of the organizational infrastructure of planning and preparedness for a seismic event alone. Rather, the variance appeared to depend on the degree of integration of the technical infrastructure for communication into the organizational plans for seismic risk reduction. This integration of social/organizational planning with the advances of technical communications infrastructure produced a powerful vehicle for expanding communication and information exchange that creates a new pattern of building community resilience to disaster.
