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  title info:
    title: Studying improvisation in a system with strict procedural discipline by means of focused interviews based on real-life cases
  name:
    name part: Johannessen, Idar Alfred
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: McArthur, Philip Woods
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Case studies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: How do complex organizations doing dangerous work in dynamic environments cope with unexpected events? In this case, we discuss how we developed and used a methodology to identify and test a unique form of leadership redundancy in the subsea operations that inspect and repair the oil and gas installations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, one of the largest in the world. These complex operations are conducted by a set of interdependent teams, led by one individual. The literature on High Reliability Organizations has documented the use of a variety of forms of redundancy to create organizational slack, including formally designed leadership redundancy (such as having a co-pilot to back up the pilot when necessary). However, in the subsea operations that we studied, there is no formal backup for the leader of the execution phase of the operation. Instead, we observed in our initial field study that if the leader was unable to respond to an unexpected and potentially dangerous event, some individuals who had sufficient time, expertise, and will would manage the situation--even though it was outside their normal responsibility and no official delegation had occurred. We called this form of organizational slack informal leadership redundancy. We tested our understanding of this controversial, infrequent, yet crucial leadership dynamic by conducting interviews with people in representative roles across the industry, asking them to comment on actual situations we had observed in the field. Our research adds to knowledge on how High Reliability Organizations combine structure and flexibility to manage unexpected events.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Idar Alfred Johannessen, Philip Woods McArthur.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-no---
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum in submerged lands
    geographic: Norway
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Leadership
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Organizational behavior
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Pétrole offshore
    geographic: Norvège
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Leadership
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Comportement organisationnel
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Organizational behavior
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum in submerged lands
  subject:
    geographic: Norway
  classification: TN874.N8 J64 2019
  classification: 553.2809481
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Research Methods
      part name: Cases
  identifier: 9781526473868
  identifier: 1526473860
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 190103
    record change date: 20240923170507.1
    record identifier: in00005496543
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng