Celia Stafford is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Management). She received a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Emory University in 2017 and an MPH focused in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. She is...
Dissertation Title: “Managing the Expected: Studies on Health and Organizational Science amid the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Modern organizations, especially health care delivery organizations, invest a significant amount of time and resources to prepare for...
Dissertation Title: "Crowdsourcing and Engaging Employees in Innovation: Three Field Studies"
This dissertation examines how crowdsourcing ideas, which opens up the opportunity to innovate, can engage employees to solve organizational problems. Across...
Dissertation Title: "Delivering across Boundaries: Social and Structural Features of Service Integration"
The ability to integrate services across settings and time is increasingly important for healthcare delivery organizations. This dissertation...
Dissertation Title: "The Partial Teammate: Managing Informal Collaborations in Contemporary Health Care Teams"
Health care teams have been grown more complex and their boundaries less clear for decades, leaving much of care delivery to informal...
Dissertation Title： "Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination"
In my dissertation, I integrate research on role-based coordination with concepts adapted from the team effectiveness literature to theorize how team scaffolds...
Dissertation Title： "Safety Climate in US Hospitals: Its Measurement, Variation, and Relationship to Organizational Safety Performance"
Patient safety problems remain common in healthcare organizations. Drawing on lessons from high reliability...
Dissertation Title: "Organizational Learning in Health Care: Insights from a Multi-Method Study of Quality Improvement Collaboratives"
Organizations that learn - consistently improving their processes and products by integrating new insights and knowledge...
Dissertation Title: "Work Process Failure and Organizational Learning in Health Care Delivery Settings"
This dissertation examines behavioral influences on the emergence and management of work process failure in health care delivery organizations. In...
Dissertation Title: "Examining the Scope of Multibusiness Health Care Firms: Implications for Corporate Strategy, Management Control Systems and Performance"
In the past two decades, multibusiness health care firms, also known as organized or integrated...