Understanding IS Team Coordination in Real Time: A Process Approach to Coordination

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serval:BIB_975C12878C9B
Type
Inproceedings: an article in a conference proceedings.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Understanding IS Team Coordination in Real Time: A Process Approach to Coordination
Title of the conference
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Author(s)
Avdiji H., Missonier S., Mastrogiacomo S.
Publisher
Association for Information Systems (AIS)
Organization
Thirty Sixth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Address
Fort Worth
ISBN
978-1-5108-1916-0
Publication state
Published
Issued date
16/06/2015
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
5
Pages
3943-3954
Language
english
Abstract
The current research-in-progress manuscript proposes a shift to a new approach to team coordination in IS projects. Previous studies have regarded team coordination through variance analyses. They identified explicit and implicit coordination mechanisms that are significantly related to team coordination, depending on some contingencies (e.g. team and task configuration, context). While such studies have greatly advanced our knowledge of the factors that impact team coordination, we have little knowledge of the activities and events that make up team coordination, and thus how team coordination concretely occurs. We propose a process model of coordination based on psycholinguistics in which we identify the fundamental activities that IS teams perform to coordinate: interacting and contributing. We highlight the propositions that will be tested by analyzing conversations from six teams involved in scenario-based projects from the AMI meeting corpus. Our process model will unveil the fundamental activities involved in both explicit and implicit coordination.
Keywords
Team coordination, process theory, common ground, implicit and explicit mechanisms
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