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• Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | June 2005 (Revised May 2018)

  Columbia's Final Mission: A Multimedia Case

  Michael Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Erika Ferlins

  Teaching Note to 305-032.

  Keywords: Aerospace Industry;

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  Roberto, Michael, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, and Erika Ferlins. "Columbia's Final Mission: A Multimedia Case." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 305-033, June 2005. (Revised May 2018.)  View Details

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• Article | Research in Organizational Behavior | 2017

  Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Limits of Less-Hierarchical Organizing

  Michael Y. Lee and Amy C. Edmondson

  Fascination with organizations that eschew the conventional managerial hierarchy and instead radically decentralize authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in radical decentralization have gained mainstream consideration, giving rise to a need for new theory and new research. This paper reviews the literature on less hierarchical organizing and identifies three categories of research: post-bureaucratic organizations, humanistic management, and organizational democracy. Despite this extensive prior work, scholarly understanding of radical decentralization remains limited. Using the term self-managing organizations to capture efforts that radically decentralize authority in a formal and systematic way throughout the organization, we set forth a research agenda to better understand less-hierarchical organizing at its limits.

  Keywords: Self-Managed Organizations; Self-Managed Teams; self-organizing systems; self-managing organizations; Flat Organization; Decentralization; organization design; non-hierarchical organizations; less-hierarchical organizing; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Research;

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  Lee, Michael Y., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Limits of Less-Hierarchical Organizing." Research in Organizational Behavior 37 (2017): 35–58.  View Details

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• Book | 2017

  Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

  Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

  Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on management and inform our understanding of teams. Containing powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global enterprises. The authors demonstrate that the work done in the modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company and more about teaming across boundaries—that often are in flux. Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading open innovation, teamwork and collaboration, project management, and cross-boundary work.

  Keywords: Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Complexity;

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  Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership. Emerald Group Publishing, 2017.  View Details

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