Master of Arts, Miami University, 2007, Speech Communication

Previous research suggests that roommate relationships can influence students' academic performance and collegiate experiences. Unfortunately, the literature on roommate relationships consists of inconclusive and contradictory findings about the complex interplay between roommate factors and relational satisfaction. This study aims to establish a typology that accounts for relational satisfaction amongst first year college roommates. Drawing from the theoretical framework of relational dialectics, social exchange theory, and interactional dialectics, three roommate types were proposed and analyzed. The results suggest that individuals who share the same roommate type tend to report higher levels of relational satisfaction. Furthermore, this study found that smaller discrepancies between individuals' ideal and actual roommate relationships yielded higher levels of relational satisfaction. Finally, this study found that roommates who emphasize communicative patterns of acceptance and avoid patterns of judgment tend to report higher levels of relational satisfaction. Implications, limitations, and directions for future research on roommate relationships are discussed.

Committee: Larry Nadler (Advisor) Subjects:

MA, Kent State University, 2024, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Philosophy

This thesis examines the relationship between Hegelian dialectics and Derridean deconstruction, ultimately questioning their apparent tension. It is my contention that, despite Derrida's critique of Hegel, Derrida's own thought draws heavily from Hegel and, thus, deconstruction comes to exhibit key features of the Hegelian dialectic. In light of this, the guiding thread of our investigation will surround the question of whether their alleged philosophical tension is genuine, or, if it relies on a certain (mis)understanding of Hegel's thought. Whereas Derrida comes to view Hegel as a homogenizing and totalizing philosopher, I will, instead, argue that Hegel should be seen as a radical philosopher of difference, failure, and instability. Thus understood, Hegel's aim is not to subsume difference in a totalizing synthesis but to draw out and stress how identity relies on the affirmation of an irreducible difference. Therefore, I will argue that Hegel's thought is situated far closer to Derridean deconstruction than has generally been accorded.

Committee: Gina Zavota (Advisor); Matthew Coate (Committee Member); Frank Ryan (Committee Member); Michael Bracher (Committee Member) Subjects: Philosophy

BA, Oberlin College, 2019, History

This thesis is an intellectual history of dialecticism and its use in the works of the Frankfurt School members, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse. Famously, these two men had a ferocious and polemical debate in the pages of Dissent Magazine in 1955-56. The Fromm-Marcuse Debate has since become almost the sole lens in which the intellectual differences and similarities between these men are analyzed. Through a comparative and historical analysis of their individual work, largely removed from the Dissent Debate, I offer a new interpretation of their conflict, their personal relationship, and a new perspective on critical theory and its relationship to political action. I argue that Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse's intellectual ideas are better juxtaposed through their interpretation of dialectics, rather than psychoanalysis, and that through this, they present us with starkly different prescriptions for individual and collective political engagement. Thus, both Fromm and Marcuse are outliers within the field of critical theory, and certainly within the Frankfurt School, even as their ideas remain in firm conflict with one another.

Committee: Annemarie Sammartino (Advisor) Subjects: American History; American Studies; European History; History; Modern History; Philosophy; Political Science

PHD, Kent State University, 2019, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Geography

This dissertation investigates the interrelated political economies of capital punishment and knowledge production, both in the material spatial context of sites of execution and in geographic, academic literature. My analysis of these relations proceeds through an epistemologically fluid dialectic approach that examines both the circuitous material and abstract commodities that cycle through capital punishment space, and the state of knowledge production in geography about the issue, practice and process of capital punishment. This dual focus has allowed me to simultaneously produce knowledge about the formal political economies of execution processes within capitalist social formations, and produce an understanding of the epistemological processes that have directed the discipline's engagement with capital punishment and other social issues through positivistic and more radical/critical approaches. Consequently, in both directions of this dual focus, I can therefore explore the relations between both the material and abstract distancing of alienation and the market logics that undergird processes of differentiation and valuation within societies operating through a capitalist mode of production. Fundamental to the study is how I have addressed questions surrounding how the killing of capital punishment is made to work in the double sense by operating through a constructed fluid epistemological framework that allows my analysis to float meaningfully between historical-materialist, post-structural, and prefigurative approaches to the world. In other words, I, in part, take up the approach of historical materialism, which has a long tradition of utility in examining political economy and its associated knowledges. Crucially, however, while historical materialism has typically examined the changing ways in which humans produce and have access to the necessities of life, this research inverts that focus. Here, the inversion of historical materialism, through post-struc (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: James A. Tyner (Advisor); Christopher Post (Committee Member); Joshua Inwood (Committee Member); Joshua Stacher (Committee Member); Babacar M'Baye (Committee Member) Subjects: Geography

BA, Oberlin College, 2017, History

This thesis attempts to understand Schoenberg and his opera Moses und Aron as important participants within the philosophical debates of their time, but also to understand that participation as necessarily musical—his music is analogous to, rather than representative of, the surrounding philosophy of his era. The first chapter addresses the broader relevant trends in Jewish philosophy, coming to focus specifically on parallels between Schoenberg and the philosopher Franz Rosenzsweig. It does not attempt to understand Schoenberg as a Jewish philosopher per se. Rather, it explores the ways in which the problems facing Jewish philosophers of Schoenberg's generation—namely, debates about the merits of Jewish folk traditions and the disintegrating relationship to German philosophy—set up questions that Schoenberg must reckon with in his approach to composition. The second chapter has a similar goal, but focuses on questions of modernism, specifically regarding Ludwig Wittgenstein and Sigmund Freud. Chapter three switches the focus from explaining the opera to utilizing the opera as a participant in a key feature of twentieth century philosophy, namely the development of dialectics.

Committee: Annemarie Sammartino (Advisor) Subjects: History; Music

MS, University of Cincinnati, 2017, Medicine: Genetic Counseling

Individuals who receive a genetic testing result revealing a pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) gene are encouraged to disclose this result to their biological family members. Various factors are known to influence the disclosure process and variations in the perceived importance of these factors make familial communication complex. The use of a theory grounded in the discipline of communication helped to explore the communicative processes involved in the familial communication of positive BRCA1/2 genetic testing results. By specifically focusing on the parent-adult child relationship, we gathered important knowledge on the unique dynamics that influence the BRCA1/2 experience in the individual and within the relationship. Semi-structured, dyadic interviews were conducted with an individual who received a positive BRCA1/2 genetic testing result together with his/her adult child. A total of fourteen dyadic pairs participated. Among the adult children, seven tested positive, three tested negative, and four had not pursued testing. Adult children seek parental input on testing and management options, but want to make their decisions autonomously. Family cancer history can impact how a parent and adult child contextualize personal and/or familial risk, sometimes inaccurately. Within the parent-adult child relationship, conversations related to the BRCA experience continue beyond the first disclosure. We discuss how our findings serve as a resource for clinicians to guide conversations with patients about the challenges and complexities of sharing results with family members, particularly with children.

Committee: Shaunak Sastry Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Jennifer Hopper M.S. L.G.C. (Committee Member); Rebecca Sisson M.S. L.G.C. (Committee Member) Subjects: Genetics

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Dayton, 2017, Theology

Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theodor Adorno are not often mentioned in the same company. While undoubtedly different, I argue that their overarching diagnoses of present phenomenological conditions are strongly corroborative. Both see present experience as damaged and that this damage is manifest in the loss of our recognition of veiled presence, or semblance. This has been made possible by a kind of `forgetting' not understood in predominantly psychological terms, but historically, witnessed through the emergence of distinctly modern notions of art and aesthetics. Through exploring these connections in relation to their notions of `aura' and `glory' I suggest that not only can theology and critical theory be mutually supportive, but that a Christologically-centered theological aesthetics presents possibilities for a critical recovery of genuine experience.

Committee: John Inglis (Committee Chair); Anthony Godzieba (Committee Member); William Portier (Committee Member); Kelly Johnson (Committee Member); Brad Kallenberg (Committee Member) Subjects: Philosophy; Theology

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, 2017, Media and Communication

In 2014, the leadership performances of National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner Adam Silver and National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell (both men who occupy White positionality), in response to two critical moments in their respective leagues, offered insight into prevailing racial and gender ideologies between United States (U.S.) professional men's sport, and ultimately, U.S. society. In the NFL, a domestic abuse incident between NFL star Ray Rice and his then-fiance Janay Palmer, two individuals who do not occupy whiteness, and in the NBA, racist comments made by then-owner of the Los Angeles Clippers Donald Sterling, a man who occupies whiteness, required responses and disciplinary action from the commissioners. Utilizing critical rhetorical analysis as a method of textual analysis (McKerrow, 1989), this dissertation examines and critiques Commissioners Silver and Goodell's rhetorical performances as leaders in response to these incidents as well as the surrounding global news and sports media reactions to their decisions. Informed by concepts within critical whiteness studies (e.g., Nakayama & Krizek, 1995), intersectionality (e.g., Crenshaw, 1989; 1991), Black Feminist Thought (BFT) (e.g., Collins 1991; 2004; Griffin, 2012b; hooks, 2004), hegemonic masculinity (e.g,., Trujillo, 1991), and dialogism (Bakhtin, 1981; Baxter, 2011), this dissertation examines the intersection of whiteness and hegemonic masculinity within the commissioners' performances to explore how whiteness functions dialectically and intersectionally to secure its persuasive power as a strategic rhetoric. The analyses within the two case studies revealed two distinct dialectics: (1) rhetorics of postracism vs. critical rhetorics, and (2) rhetorics of honor vs. rhetorics of shame. Overall, this project extends understanding of how the rhetorics of whiteness work dialectically and intersect with the rhetorics of masculinity within the NBA and NFL via the rhetorical p (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Alberto Gonzalez Dr. (Committee Co-Chair); Lisa Hanasono Dr. (Committee Co-Chair); Christina Lunceford Dr. (Other); Ellen Gorsevski Dr. (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication; Rhetoric

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, 2016, Communication Studies (Communication)

Storytellers Church is a nondenominational Christian church that began weekly services in Macomb, Michigan in January, 2014. Founded by Pastor Bryan Ball and his wife Brittany, the mission of Storytellers Church is “telling stories of life change so people far from God will hear” (storytellersmi.org). This dissertation is an ethnographic case study rooted in my participation as a volunteer, attendee, and eventually, a leader at Storytellers. I share my experiences with the physical construction of Storytellers, as well as my own church background and the sense-making process my fellow participants and I journeyed through together. I also detail the qualitative analysis I employed to allow my findings to be grounded in the field notes and interviews I gathered over the course of Storytellers' first year of services. This process led me to three dialectical tensions, which I detail in chapters three, four, and five respectively: authority assertion and surrender, the idealization and realization of stories, and performance and worship. By placing each of these dialectical tensions in conversation with literature regarding Christian authority, narrative theories, and the performance work of Erving Goffman, I offer ways in which new churches can embrace a dialectical approach as a hopeful and generative perspective from which to build their organizations. Three more tensions also surfaced in my evidence, and those are discussed as directions for future research in chapter six: uncertainty and faith, accountability and acceptance, and stability and change.

Committee: William Rawlins (Advisor) Subjects: Communication

Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 2015, Management

Today, in a world context defined by increasing complexity, deepening disparities and rising uncertainty, the imperative of connecting knowledge with action to create systemic social change and achieve more equitable futures for all human beings is greater than ever. The task is ongoing and necessitates both the adaptation of known solutions and the discovery of new possibilities. This dissertation investigates the subject matter of design as a deeply humanistic knowledge domain that is drawing mounting attention and praise for its ability to open up new possibilities for action oriented toward social innovation and human progress. Paradoxically, despite unequivocal signs of such forms of design gaining prominence in our institutions and organizations, the unique value that professional designers impart to the class of systemic challenges and innovation opportunities at stake is an understudied pursuit that lacks articulation and merits elucidation. This dissertation contributes to filling that critical gap. Integrating theories of social innovation, organizational culture, institutional logics and design, and building on the construct of “design attitude” (a set of unique capabilities, abilities and dispositions espoused by professional designers and that are related to organizational learning and innovation), the dissertation relies on the interpretation and analyses of three independent field studies organized in a multiphase mixed methods exploratory design sequence. The dissertation is organized in a dialectical progression that presents the following overarching research question: How might we elucidate the value designers bring to the field of social innovation? The first study combines a grounded theory approach with a comparative semantic analysis of four case studies of design for social innovation projects (conducted with design teams from IDEO.org, Frog Design, Mind Lab and the former Helsinki Design Lab). The insights culled from semi-struct (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Richard Buchanan PhD (Committee Chair); Richard Boland Jr. PhD (Committee Member); Kalle Lyytinen PhD (Committee Member); John Paul Stephens PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Design; Entrepreneurship; Management

PHD, Kent State University, 2014, College of Communication and Information / School of Communication Studies

Close friendship is a crucial and unique interpersonal tie that can survive a lifetime. Maintaining such friendships at a satisfactory level, even with the aid of social networking websites (SNS) such as Facebook, can be a challenging process. Research on face-to-face communication has shown that relationship satisfaction depends both upon relationship maintenance strategies (e.g., positivity, openness, supportiveness) and the management of dialectical contradictions (e.g., openness-closedness and autonomy-connection). This dissertation asked how relationship maintenance strategies used on Facebook and perceived dialectical tensions influence relationship satisfaction in close friendships. A key objective was to determine whether the role of Facebook in friendship maintenance differs across two cultures: the U.S. and Malaysia. Effects of the gender makeup of the friendship dyads, age, intensity of Facebook use, and cultural value orientation were also investigated. All participants completed an online survey in which they were asked to think of a close friend with whom they communicated both face-to-face and on Facebook. Findings showed that Malaysian respondents used certain Facebook maintenance behaviors (i.e., supportiveness, openness, social information seeking, and avoidance) significantly more often than did Americans. Cross-sex dyads used more positivity on Facebook than male-male dyads and more openness than female-female dyads. Intensity of Facebook use was positively correlated with frequency of use of all seven Facebook maintenance behaviors. Age of the respondent did not influence the frequency of Facebook maintenance behaviors, when intensity of Facebook use was controlled for. Perceived use of positivity and supportiveness by the friend on Facebook were positively related to relationship satisfaction. In contrast, more frequent use of avoidance and social information seeking by the friend on Facebook negatively impacted relationship satisfactio (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Janet Meyer PHD (Advisor) Subjects: Communication; Mass Communications

Master of Arts, University of Akron, 2013, Communication

This qualitative study explored how adoptees share their entrance narratives with their own children and how the second generation responds.

Committee: Kathleen Clark Dr. (Advisor); Heather Walter Dr. (Committee Member); Rebecca Ivic Dr. (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication; Families and Family Life

MA, University of Cincinnati, 2011, Arts and Sciences: Communication

This study applies Relational Dialectics Theory (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996) to the sibling relationship, focusing on how dialectical tensions are expressed and negotiated between siblings during emerging adulthood. Specifically, this study investigates how the popular social network site Facebook might introduce and influence these tensions siblings experience. Using RDT as a framework, the research analyzes siblings' survey responses, interview data, and Facebook posts for evidence of competing discourses (i.e., connectedness vs. separateness, openness vs. protections, etc).

Committee: Teresa Chandler Sabourin PhD (Committee Chair); Nancy Jennings PhD (Committee Member); Heather Zoller PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication

MA, University of Cincinnati, 2001, Arts and Sciences : Communication

This research sought to identify the most common dialectical management strategies used by long-term married couples. The three basic dialectical tensions of autonomy-connection, openness-closedness, and novelty-predictability were examined. Twenty-two couples, each with a marital span of at least forty years, were interviewed and their responses were coded using Baxter and Montgomery's (1996) dialectical management strategy taxonomy. For the autonomy-connection and novelty-predictability dilemmas, spiraling inversion was found to be utilized most often. The openness-closedness dilemma produced segmentation as the most utilized strategy. However, segmentation was described with a negative affect by many of the couples interviewed, while spiraling inversion was described with positive or no affect attached. Finally, an additional management strategy emerged through the interview process. Many couples described a strategy in which too much communication was seen as a negative. Their relationships were based more on an abundance of trust and a realization that relationship fluctuation is normal.

Committee: Dr. Teresa Sabourin (Advisor) Subjects:

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 2012, Communication

Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, causes pervasive challenges in social skills for affected individuals, resulting in communicative incompetence that interferes with an individual's quality of life. Research and literature in autism suggests that communication challenges are caused by a lack of Theory of Mind, the ability to imagine the perspectives of others. The communication challenges associated with Asperger's Syndrome are examined from a perspective informed by Relational Dialectics Theory, which posits that competence can only be judged from an interaction and not on an individual basis. Content from an online support forum for people with Asperger's Syndrome is analyzed for themes related to dialectical tensions and the communication challenges associated with diagnostic criteria for Asperger's Syndrome. Results provide evidence that people with Asperger's Syndrome are able to make attempts at establishing Theory of Mind and that a dialectical perspective is relevant in discussions and research of autistic communicative incompetence.

Committee: Stacie Powers PhD (Advisor); Susan Kline PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, 2011, Communication Studies (Communication)

This dissertation attempts to better understand the lives of college football players. The project begins with the assumption that the ways individuals talk about their experiences have a significant impact on others. An organizational framework is used to appreciate the central importance of communication in coordinating organizational relationships and developing impressions. College football players were gathered from three separate institutions representing different competitive levels of college football. Through interviews, participants were invited to provide stories that reflected their understandings of what it means to play college football. Because the intent of this study was to better understand issues related to the culture of playing football, common themes were derived from those interviews in an attempt to answer four separate research questions. Not surprisingly, athletes commonly discussed the role of injury during college football as injury is a common experience across competitive football teams. The results of this study are interrelated. First, I discuss how metaphors are used to illustrate the lives of college football players and how these reflect one's relationship to the team. The metaphors of football as a job and football as a family were shared among participants. Second, by exploring the expectations of what it means to be an athlete, I was able to discuss the importance of gaining trust among teammates and how trust in others can be lost if one does not conform to proper scripts of interaction. These results support the notion of the “generalized other” discussed in the third portion of this study. The stories concerning college football players' experiences with being injured revealed a dialectical tension between the individual and generalized other. When injured, the athlete experiences a dialectical tension between participation and exclusion and is called upon to manage this tension between himself and the rest of the team. This (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Claudia Hale PhD (Committee Chair); Roger Aden PhD (Committee Member); Lynn Harter PhD (Committee Member); Andrew Kreutzer PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, 2010, Communication Studies (Communication)

The goal of this dissertation is to advance our understanding of tensions and contradictions experienced in public relations work - a type of boundary spanning work that involves a high amount of information gathering and representation activities. Based on the analysis of 41 in-depth interviews with public relations professionals in the United States this research investigated the type of tensions and contradictions they experienced, how they negotiated with such tensions and contradictions, and what type of communicative strategies they used to deal with these tensions and contradictions. This research makes several theoretical and practical contributions to extant literature on boundary spanning and workplace tensions across disciplines. First, grounded in social constructionist thought this study presents a new definition of boundary spanning that emphasizes its discursive nature. Second, through a tension-centered perspective on organizations, use of structuration theory, and sensemaking processes, findings revealed that public relations professionals experienced four primary tensions and contradictions that revolved around work relationships with journalists, clients, supervisors, and colleagues. The tensions identified were: tangible-intangible, creative-controlling, secretive-trustworthy, and serving-servitude. Third, public relations professionals in this research understood these tensions, contradictions, and their work through metaphors of family and games. Fourth, public relations professionals used avoidance and reframing as strategies in navigating through tensions and contradictions. Fifth, the tension-centered perspective unearthed connections between the use of emotions, relationships, and experiences of work-family conflict in public relations work. Thus, this is the first systematic study that takes a tension-centered constitutive view of communication to the study of boundary spanning work in the public relations context and significantly advance (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Daniel Modaff PhD (Advisor); Claudia Hale PhD (Committee Member); Lynn Harter PhD (Committee Member); Amy Taylor-Bianco PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication

Master of Arts, Miami University, 2005, Speech Communication

This study sought to discover if feminists have different romantic relationship ideals than women who choose not to assume such an identity. Downing and Roush's (1985) feminist identity model and the Feminist Identity Composite created by Fisher et al. (2000) were used to determine the identity of each woman. After determining the females' identity placement, the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) was used to discover the romantic relationship ideals of each group of women, which ultimately lead to the creation of a concept map utilized to compare the groups. The similarities and differences concerning the romantic relationship ideals of each group of women were reviewed from the perspectives of both Fitzpatrick's typologies and relational dialectics. The participants' views on romantic relationship ideals through the lens of Fitzpatrick's typologies found feminists most like independents, and non-feminists most like Fitzpatrick's independents. The dialectics of autonomy-connectedness, predictability-novelty, openness-closeness are discussed for each group.

Committee: Gary Shulman (Advisor) Subjects:

PHD, Kent State University, 2011, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English

The dissertation examines the applications of Lev S. Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory of human psychological development and Alexei N. Leont'ev's activity theory in studies of writing and literacy. This investigation of recent scholarship in the field of writing studies in works by Witte (1998, 2005), Russell (1995, 1997, 2002), Zebroski (1983, 1994), Bazerman (1995, 1997, 2002, 2004), Smagorinsky (2004, 2006), and Scribner (1981, 1997) attempts to reveal misapplications of Vygotsky's and Leont'ev's theoretical positions and to offer solutions. In particular, I argue that the dialectical method of analysis originating in Marxist philosophy is vital to appreciating the systemic nature of the theories. Furthermore, the dialectical method is essential in both practical and theoretical research applications of Vygotsky's and Leont'ev's ideas. The dissertation concludes by highlighting Vygotsky's construct of symbolic mediation as a central property, characterizing human mental functioning, and explores the affordances of this construct for defining units of analysis in applied research programs. Overall, it attempts to build a more robust theoretical position in the field informed by an overarching theory of human psychological functioning and development and a comprehensive analytical method represented by Marxist dialectics.

Committee: Raymond Craig Dr. (Committee Chair); Brian Huot Dr. (Committee Member); Pamela Takayoshi Dr. (Committee Member); Kevin Floyd Dr. (Other); Kenneth Bindas Dr. (Other); James Zebroski Dr. (Other) Subjects: Cultural Anthropology; Developmental Psychology; Educational Psychology; Literacy; Pedagogy; Social Psychology

Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 2009, Management Information and Decision Systems

Complex socio-technical systems suffer increasingly from systemic risks. A systemic risk is a risk that originates from multiple sources, affects multiple agents, propagates quickly or unexpectedly among individual parts or components of the system, and if left unchecked can cause a breakdown of the system. This research seeks to explain the technologies of risk control in such complex systems. Three main issues are explored: i) the elevated level of systemic risks in complex socio-technical systems; ii) the mindful risk control mechanisms in complex socio-technical systems; and iii) the role of information technology in containing and mitigating risks in complex socio-technical systems.The research is grounded in the literature on risk, theories of collective mindfulness, general dialectics, and IT practices. Since little prior research has been conducted on systemic risk, a multi-site case study methodology is followed. As part of the ongoing Path Creation project sponsored by the NSF (IIS-0208963), the first research site is a highly complex architectural project by Frank Gehry and his firm Gehry Partners, L.L.C.: the Peter B. Lewis Building. The second research site is the Akron Art Museum (AAM) designed by renowned Vienna architect Coop Himmelb(l)au. Both architects and their partners successfully used the 3D CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software, CATIA (Computer Aided Three Dimensional Interactive Application) and Rhino (Rhinoceros) respectively, to construct radical architectures with dauntingly complex geometric surfaces in spite of increased systemic risks. The major findings include: First, complex socio-technical systems suffer from an elevated level of systemic risks which are not quantifiable as chances or probabilities but are emergent, nonlinear and whose sources are difficult to pinpoint in advance. Second, organizations combat systemic risk through “collective mindfulness”(Weick et al. 1999). Third, organizations create and maintain the collective m (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Kalle Lyytinen (Committee Chair); Richard Boland (Committee Member); Sayan Chatterjee (Committee Member); Betty Vandenbosch (Committee Member) Subjects: Architecture; Computer Science; Design; Information Systems; Social Research; Sociology; Systems Design; Technology