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Academy of Management Review Vol. 30 No. 1 2005

Coordination as Energy-in-Conversation

Ryan W. Quinn1; Jane E. Dutton2

1 Washington University in St. Louis · 2 University of Michigan Business School

Abstract

Coordination is the process people use to create, adapt, and re-create organizations. We propose a theory of coordination as energy-in-conversation to help organizational scholars comprehend the emotional and motivational dynamics of coordination. Our model describes how people generate and diminish their energy in their attempts to coordinate, how this energy affects attempts to coordinate, and how coordinating affects the effort devoted to the activities in the process. This account of the coordination process presents a new approach for understanding performance in interdependent situations.

DOI
10.5465/amr.2005.15281422
Volume
30
Issue
1
Pages
36-57
Language
en
Sources
ris:amr.ris openalex crossref

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