Planning, Control, and Adaptation:: A Case Study
This article relates the findings of an ethnographically informed study conducted at a Swedish Nuclear Power Plant. It describes a set of events while the plant was shut down for a short non-productive outage. In order to understand better how high-reliability organizations successfully manage the conflict between bureaucratic planning and flexibility we provide a description of simultaneous levels of control that dissolve the conflict. Instead of merely describing actions as planned, or improvised, the present work illustrates that no clear-cut distinctions can be drawn between what is improvisation and what is not. Understanding planning as a control activity as well, enables us to grasp the different values of the canonical activity of planning.
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2005
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Authors: | Gauthereau, Vincent ; Hollnagel, Erik |
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European Management Journal. - Elsevier, ISSN 0263-2373. - Vol. 23.2005, 1, p. 118-131
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | Planning Improvisation Nuclear power generation |
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