ITR: Collaborative Research: Large Scale Collaboration in Critical Environments

在关键环境中运作的组织，如医院和安全机构，已经演变成以团队为基础的准分散结构。这些组织中的安全、效率和质量性能依赖于组织支持大规模协作的能力——在动态和风险倾向的环境中跨团队、任务和资源的实时协调。本研究通过在创伤中心的实地研究、用于实时协调的移动设备的技术开发以及实验室研究来了解团队、人员和资源之间的协调，开始解决大规模协作中的协调问题。本研究旨在发展大规模协作的轨迹管理理论和管理工具，以及跨团队协调的实际解决方案。来自马里兰大学医学院、卡内基梅隆大学和亚利桑那大学的研究人员将在这项研究中合作。该项目将改进组织科学理论，增加对如何在关键环境中利用新信息技术的理解，并改善医院和其他重要组织的协调。

Organizations operating in critical environments, such as hospitals and security agencies, have evolved into team-based, quasi-decentralized structures. Safety, efficiency, and quality performance in these organizations depend on the ability of the organization to support large scale collaboration-real time coordination across teams, tasks, and resources in a dynamic and risk-prone environment. This research begins to tackle problems of coordination in large-scale collaboration through field research in a trauma center, technology development of mobile devices for real time coordination, and laboratory studies to understand coordination across teams, people, and resources. The research aims to develop a theory of trajectory management and management tools in large-scale collaboration and practical solutions to cross-team coordination. Researchers from University of Maryland Medical School, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Arizona will collaborate on this research. This project will improve theory in organization science, increase understanding of how to exploit new information technology in critical environments, and improve coordination in hospitals and other vital organizations.