Navigating among islands of certainty: Coordinating as communicative practices of temporary organizations experiencing crisis

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外文摘要：© 2023 The Author(s)This research explores temporary organizing in crisis. Recognizing crises in temporary organizations as involving the existential loss of meaning for plans and prospects, we present a qualitative study of the complex negotiation between integration and fragmentation of a temporary organization experiencing crisis. Embracing communication as constitutive of organization (CCO) theorizing, we analyse the real-time, digital communication during the crisis as episodes of temporary organizing. Our analysis reveals three interdependent communicative practices for coordinating—framing, co-creating, and connecting—that constitute “islands of certainty” or ephemeral instances of integration providing orientation for otherwise fragmented coordinating. These findings contribute to understanding coordinating as a sophisticated communicative practice of meaning negotiation about the possible future of a temporary organization in crisis. Specifically, this study reveals increased integration communication when the integrity of a project's future is contested, yet high degrees of communicative fragmentation when there is a shared prospection of the project's future.

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Communicative constitution of organizationCoordinationCrisis managementPractices

作者：

Stingl V.、McClellan J.G.

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作者单位：

Department of Materials and Production Aalborg University

Department of Culture and Learning Aalborg University

出版年：

2023

DOI：

10.1016/j.ijproman.2023.102540

International journal of project management

ISSN：0263-7863

年,卷(期)：2023.41(8)

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