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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: constitution of highly reliable practices
    sub title: materializing communication as constitutive of organizing
  name:
    name part: Spradley, Robert Tyler.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Putnam, Linda
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Miller, Katherine I.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: National and international crises in the early 21st Century, whether natural, technological or man-made, emphasize the need for highly reliable organizations (HROs) to conduct emergency response in a relatively error-free way. Urban search and rescue units provide a pivotal intermittent role in these high-risk environments. Traditional HRO research focuses on a concept known as "collective mind" -- heedful interactions of responders that accomplish reliability. Rather than focusing on collective mind, this study uses a practice-based communication approach to examine the material interplay of bodies, objects, and sites using ethnography and grounded theory. In-depth interviews, participant observations, and organizational documents were coded and contrasted to find patterns in material interplay. More specifically, this study examines how these material features interact to orchestrate reliable practices through ecological coherence, a bonding of multiple forces to construct meaning and improvisation. The study has implication for HRO theory through focusing on the role of the body rather than emphasizing cognitive judgment in collective action. Collective body shifts the discussion of mindful processes to embodied practices and offers insights into the ways responders enact safety and perform responses in dynamic, high-risk environments.
  note: by Robert Tyler Spradley.
  note: "Major Subject: Communication"
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11760
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Communication
  subject:
    topic: Organizational communication
  subject:
    topic: Constitutive entanglement
  subject:
    topic: Practices
  subject:
    topic: Collective mind
  subject:
    topic: Sociomateriality
  subject:
    topic: High reliability organizations
  subject:
    topic: Communication as constitutive of organizing
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11760
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 121115
    record change date: 20150922143336.0
    record identifier: in00002755723