Walk into any hospital and you鈥檒l witness a complex, multi-level system of personnel in action, interacting with each other, with patients, and with high-tech equipment around the clock. Healthcare systems naturally face management challenges鈥攖he COVID-19 pandemic amplified those and introduced new ones. How can management insights gleaned from the pandemic help healthcare move forward into sustainable systems that prioritize the well-being of both practitioners and patients?
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Published on: 18 Aug 2022
Across programs and subject areas, the Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that teaching plays in enriching the student experience and in inspiring the next generation of leaders.
The Distinguished Teaching Award recipients听Sujata Madan听补苍诲听Juan Serpa听were honoured at 91黑料网鈥檚 2022 Management Convocation ceremony on June 1, for their excellence in teaching.
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Published on: 10 Jun 2022
Authors: Paolo V. Leone, Saku Mantere and Samer Faraj
Publication: Academy of Management Review, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 2021, Pages 725鈥�749.
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Published on: 15 Feb 2022
At first the operating room appears to be missing its surgeon鈥攊n the surgeon鈥檚 place, a robot, surgical tools at the ready, towers over the patient. Surgical robotic technology is specialized in design and purpose, yet in practice it illuminates more universal insights into how the introduction of new technologies spurs changes to people鈥檚 embodied actions, causing both intended and unexpected impacts.
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Published on: 27 Jan 2022
Samer Faraj,听笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤 of Strategy & Organization
鈥淟osing Touch: An Embodiment Perspective on Coordination in Robotic Surgery鈥�
Winner of the 2021 OCIS Best Published Paper Award
Organizational Communication & Information Systems - OCIS
(A Division of the Academy of Management - AOM)
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Published on: 13 Aug 2021
In episode 5 of听罢丑别听鈥�New Normal鈥� hosted by听Dave Kaufman,听笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Samer Faraj听speaks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has created an over reliance on corporate technological behemoths. Faraj breaks down the ever-growing role of digitization in our society and examines who benefits from the UBER-ization of our daily lives: all who take part in the gig economy or only to those who are 鈥渙n top鈥�?
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Published on: 15 Jun 2021
Authors: Samer Faraj, and S. Pachidi
Publication: Organization Theory, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 1-14.
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Published on: 24 Mar 2021
Authors: S. Pachidi, H. Berends, Samer Faraj, and M. Huysman
Publication: Organization Science, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 18-41.
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Published on: 24 Mar 2021
Authors: A.V. Sergeeva, Samer Faraj, and M. Huysman
Publication: Organization Science, Volume 31, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 1248-1271.
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Because new technologies allow new performances, mediations, representations, and information flows, they are often associated with changes in how coordination is achieved. Current coordination research emphasizes its situated and emergent nature, but seldom accounts for the role of embodied action. Building on a 25-month field study of the da Vinci robot, an endoscopic system for minimally invasive surgery, we bring to the fore the role of the body in how coordination was reconfigured in response to a change in technological mediation. Using the robot, surgeons experienced both an augmentation and a reduction of what they can do with their bodies in terms of haptic, visual, and auditory perception and manipulative dexterity. These bodily augmentations and reductions affected joint task performance and led to coordinative adaptations (e.g., spatial relocating, redistributing tasks, accommodating novel perceptual dependencies, and mounting novel responses) that, over time, resulted in reconfiguration of roles, including expanded occupational knowledge, emergence of new specializations, and shifts in status and boundaries. By emphasizing the importance of the body in coordination, this paper suggests that an embodiment perspective is important for explaining how and why coordination evolves following the introduction of a new technology.
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Published on: 13 Nov 2020
What will your workplace be like in the age of the learning algorithm? New research from Professor Samer Faraj explains why the current technological revolution is unlike any other we鈥檝e seen and how we can adapt.
This article is brought to you by Delve, the official thought leadership publication of 91黑料网's Desautels Faculty of Management.
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Published on: 7 Oct 2019
The Desautels Faculty of Management welcomed its new cohort of PhD students at a lunch reception in September organized by the Desautels Doctorate Student Society (DDSS).
This year鈥檚 cohort totals 65 students (26 women, 39 men) who originate from 16 countries across the world.
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Published on: 31 Oct 2018
Over summer 2018, Professor Samer Faraj received six recognitions for the excellence of his completed and forthcoming research.
In recognition of his published research with students and collaborators, Professor Faraj was presented with the following:
鈥� France-wide FNEGE 2018 Prix acad茅mique de la Recherche en Management for: Kudaravalli, S., Faraj, S., Johnson, S. (2017) 鈥淎 Configural Approach to Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams鈥� in MIS Quarterly;
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Published on: 14 Sep 2018
Karla Sayegh, PhD Student in Strategy & Organization, received the best student paper award for her thesis work at the 11th International Organizational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference held in Montreal from May 13 鈥�16, 2018. 听
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Published on: 14 Jun 2018
Does moving hospitals to a new building give you a different kind of care?
Learn more about how Desautels professors are behind some of the most unique research projects in the world.
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Published on: 5 Feb 2018
Authors: Srinivas Kuduravalli, Samer Faraj and Steven L. Johnson
Publication: MIS Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 2017
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Despite the recognition of how important expertise coordination is to the performance of software development teams, understanding of how expertise is coordinated in practice is limited. We adopt a configural approach to develop a theoretical model of expertise coordination that differentiates between design collaboration and technical collaboration. We propose that neither a strictly centralized, top-down model nor a largely decentralized approach is superior. Our model is tested in a field study of 71 software development teams. We conclude that because design work addresses ill-structured problems with diverse potential solutions, decentralization of design collaboration can lead to greater coordination success and reduced team conflict. Conversely, technical work benefits from centralized collaboration. We find that task knowledge tacitness strengthens these relationships between collaboration configuration and coordination outcomes and that team conflict mediates the relationships. Our findings underline the need to differentiate between technical and design collaboration and point to the importance of certain configurations in reducing team conflict and increasing coordination success in software development teams. This paper opens up new research avenues to explore the collaborative mechanisms underlying knowledge team performance.
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Published on: 17 Oct 2017
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