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Leadership in partially distributed emergency response software development teams
Linda Plotnick
author
Starr Roxanne Hiltz
author
Rosalie Ocker
author
Mary Beth Rosson
author
2008
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Washington, DC
English
Emergency response and preparedness teams that are inter-organizational or international often work together in partially distributed teams (PDTs). A PDT has at least one collocated subteam and at least two subteams that are geographically distributed. Leadership configuration and behaviors present unique challenges in PDTs. This paper describes preliminary results of an initial field experiment with international student teams undertaken to examine leadership in PDTs working on high-level requirements for an emergency preparedness information system. Leadership is viewed through the lens of what leader behaviors, or roles, are enacted by the leaders. Leadership configuration was varied: some teams had just an overall team leader; others had no team leader but had a leader for each subteam, while others had both team and subteam leaders. The findings suggest that leadership configuration matters and that leaders do enact roles similar to those found in studies of fully distributed or traditional collocated teams.
Civil defense
Risk management
Visual communication
Distributed teams
Emergency management
In-group/out-group effects
Leadership
Telepresence
Emergency services
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http://idl.iscram.org/files/plotnick/2008/846_Plotnick_etal2008.pdf
LindaPlotnick_etal2008
Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 – 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
ISCRAM 2008
F. Fiedrich
B
Van
de
Walle
editor
5th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2008
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Washington, DC
conference publication
150
158
9780615206974
2411-3387
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