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24077
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716
National Ranking
315

Overview

Karlene H. Roberts is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within business, management, and health professions.

The scientist's main fields of study include Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Health Professions. More specific subfields of their work cover General Health Professions, Management Information Systems, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Strategy and Management.

Throughout their career, Karlene H. Roberts has contributed to several topics, notably:

  • Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
  • Collaboration in agile enterprises
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

Their publication record features recent papers, including:

  • "Reliability-Seeking virtual organizations at the margins of systems, resources and capacity" (2023), published in Safety Science
  • "Health Care in Times of War" (2020), published in Academy of Management Perspectives

Karlene H. Roberts frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Peter F. Martelli
  • Martha Grabowski
  • Gordon C Shen
  • Paul Knox Clarke
  • Rangaraj Ramanujam

Their work appears in academic venues such as Safety Science and Academy of Management Perspectives, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach that merges management theories with practical applications in health and organizational contexts.

Best Publications

  • Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks.

    Karl E. Weick;Karlene H. Roberts

  • The General Managers

    John P. Kotter

  • The Incident Command System: High-Reliability Organizing for Complex and Volatile Task Environments

    Gregory A. Bigley;Karlene H. Roberts

  • Some Characteristics of One Type of High Reliability Organization

    Karlene H. Roberts

  • Handbook of Organizational Communication.

    Stewart L. Tubbs;Frederic M. Jablin;Linda L. Putnam;Karlene H. Roberts

  • Measuring organizational communication.

    Karlene H. Roberts;Charles A. O'Reilly

  • Handbook of Organizational Communication: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Fredric M. Jablin;Linda L. Putnam;Karlene Roberts;Lyman Porter

  • The Self-Designing High-Reliability Organization: Aircraft Carrier Flight Operations at Sea

    Gene I. Rochlin;Todd R. La Porte;Karlene H. Roberts

  • Failures in Upward Communication in Organizations: Three Possible Culprits

    Karlene H. Roberts;Charles A. O'Reilly

  • The job characteristics approach to task design: A critical review.

    Karlene H. Roberts;William Glick

  • Some correlations of communication roles in organizations.

    Karlene H. Roberts;Charles A. O'Reilly

  • Managing High Reliability Organizations

    Karlene H. Roberts

  • Must accidents happen? Lessons from high-reliability organizations

    Karlene H. Roberts;Robert Bea

  • Task group structure, communication, and effectiveness in three organizations.

    Charles A. O'Reilly;Karlene H. Roberts

  • Developing an Interdisciplinary Science of Organizations.

    Rabi S. Bhagat;Karlene H. Roberts;Charles L. Hulin;Denise M. Rousseau

  • Risk Mitigation in Virtual Organizations

    Martha Grabowski;Karlene H. Roberts

  • Information filtration in organizations: Three experiments

    Charles A. O'Reilly;Karlene H. Roberts

  • Decision Dynamics in Two High Reliability Military Organizations

    Karlene H. Roberts;Suzanne K. Stout;Jennifer J. Halpern

  • New Challenges to Understanding Organizations

    Karlene H. Roberts

  • 3. Cross-national Organizational Research: The Grasp of the Blind Men

    Karlene H. Roberts;Nakiye A. Boyacigiller

  • Communication in Organizations.

    Lyman W. Porter;Karlene H. Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. O'Reilly
Charles A. O'Reilly Stanford University
Daniel A. Farber
Daniel A. Farber University of California, Berkeley
Lyman W. Porter
Lyman W. Porter University of California, Irvine
Joseph Wartman
Joseph Wartman University of Washington
Brian D. Collins
Brian D. Collins United States Geological Survey
Charles L. Hulin
Charles L. Hulin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jean-Louis Briaud
Jean-Louis Briaud Texas A&M University
Raymond B. Seed
Raymond B. Seed University of California, Berkeley
Denise M. Rousseau
Denise M. Rousseau Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan D. Bray
Jonathan D. Bray University of California, Berkeley

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