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Planning, Control, and Adaptation:: A Case Study

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  • Gauthereau, Vincent
  • Hollnagel, Erik

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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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  • Gauthereau, Vincent & Hollnagel, Erik, 2005. "Planning, Control, and Adaptation:: A Case Study," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 23(1), pages 118-131, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:23:y:2005:i:1:p:118-131
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    1. Sungheon Lee & Jaehyun Kim & Awwal M. Arigi & Jonghyun Kim, 2022. "Identification of Contributing Factors to Organizational Resilience in the Emergency Response Organization for Nuclear Power Plants," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(20), pages 1-24, October.

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