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Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

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Business and Management

D-Index
54
Citations
49512
World Ranking
747
National Ranking
326

Overview

Kathleen M. Sutcliffe is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Health Professions. Within these main fields, their work focuses notably on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Emergency Medical Services, Economics and Econometrics, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The primary topics explored in their publications include Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Management and Organizational Studies, Occupational Health and Safety Research, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Patient Safety and Medication Errors, Health and Medical Research Impacts, and Disaster Response and Management.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kathleen M. Sutcliffe include:

  • Christopher G. Myers
  • Michelle Barton
  • Anna Mayo
  • Marlys K. Christianson
  • Haridimos Tsoukas

Their work has been published repeatedly in influential academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Academy of Management Review
  • Journal of Management Studies
  • BMJ Leader
  • Academy of Management Annals

Recent papers by Kathleen M. Sutcliffe highlight diverse aspects of resilience, organizational science, and healthcare management. Notable publications include:

  • "Resilience in action: leading for resilience in response to COVID-19" (2020) in BMJ Leader
  • "Organizational Science and Health Care" (2021) in Academy of Management Annals
  • "Gender Bias in Collaborative Medical Decision Making: Emergent Evidence" (2020) in Academic Medicine
  • "High reliability organising in healthcare: still a long way left to go" (2022) in BMJ Quality & Safety
  • "Enacting resilience: Adventure racing as a microcosm of resilience organizing" (2023) in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Best Publications

  • Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking

    Karl E. Weick;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;David Obstfeld

  • Managing the unexpected : resilient performance in an age of uncertainty

    Karl E. Weick;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

  • Managing the unexpected

    Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;Marlys K. Christianson

  • Organizing for high reliability: Processes of collective mindfulness.

    Karl E. Weick;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;David Obstfeld

  • Managing the unexpected: Assuring high performance in an age of complexity.

    Karl E. Weick;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

  • A Socially Embedded Model of Thriving at Work

    Gretchen Spreitzer;Kathleen Sutcliffe;Jane Dutton;Scott Sonenshein

  • Comparing Alternative Conceptualizations of Functional Diversity in Management Teams: Process and Performance Effects

    J. Stuart Bunderson;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

  • Communication failures: an insidious contributor to medical mishaps.

    Kathleen M Sutcliffe;Elizabeth Lewton;Marilynn M Rosenthal

  • Mindfulness and the Quality of Organizational Attention

    Karl E. Weick;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

  • Organizational response to adversity: Fusing crisis management and resilience research streams

    Trenton A. Williams;Daniel A. Gruber;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;Dean A. Shepherd

  • DISTINGUISHING CONTROL FROM LEARNING IN TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT: A CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE

    Sim B. Sitkin;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;Roger G. Schroeder

  • Management team learning orientation and business unit performance.

    J. Stuart Bunderson;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

  • Organizational resilience: Towards a theory and research agenda

    T.J. Vogus;K.M. Sutcliffe

  • Uncertainty in the transaction environment: An empirical test

    Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;Akbar Zaheer

  • Managing the Unexpected: Sustained Performance in a Complex World

    Karl E. Weick;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

  • Studying Changes in Organizational Design and Effectiveness: Retrospective Event Histories and Periodic Assessments

    William H. Glick;George P. Huber;C. Chet Miller;D. Harold Doty

  • What Executives Notice: Accurate Perceptions in Top Management Teams

    Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

  • Learning Through Rare Events: Significant Interruptions at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum

    Marlys K. Christianson;Maria T. Farkas;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;Karl E. Weick

  • The Safety Organizing Scale Development and Validation of a Behavioral Measure of Safety Culture in Hospital Nursing Units

    Timothy J. Vogus;Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

  • Mindfulness in Organizations: A Cross-Level Review

    Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;Timothy J. Vogus;Erik Dane

  • Managing the unexpected: resilient performance in an age of uncertainty, second edition

    Karl Weick;Kathleen Sutcliffe

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl E. Weick
Karl E. Weick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter J. Pronovost
Peter J. Pronovost Case Western Reserve University
Sim B. Sitkin
Sim B. Sitkin Duke University
Alfred A. Marcus
Alfred A. Marcus University of Minnesota
Dean A. Shepherd
Dean A. Shepherd University of Notre Dame
Gary J. Young
Gary J. Young Northeastern University
Haridimos Tsoukas
Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus
Gretchen M. Spreitzer
Gretchen M. Spreitzer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mary Dixon-Woods
Mary Dixon-Woods University of Cambridge
Adam M. Grant
Adam M. Grant University of Pennsylvania

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