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The Operations Research Department's Dr. Larry Shattuck and Dr. Nita Lewis Miller have received the The Roland Calori Prize for their paper "Extending Naturalistic Decision Making to Complex Organizations: A Dynamic Model of Situated Cognition".
This prize was given for the best article published in the journal Organization Studies in 2005 and 2006 at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) annual meeting in Vienna, Austria in July 2007. This prize was created to pay tribute to Professor Roland Calori for his invaluable contribution to the three co-awarding institutions, Organization Studies, Grande Ecole de Management et de Commerce (EM) Lyon and the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS).
The Roland Calori Prize is awarded bi-annually for the best article published in Organization Studies over the previous two years. On average, Organizational Studies receives over 400 paper submissions per year. The winning paper displays methodological quality and theoretical innovativeness and reflects the diversity of social science perspectives as they relate to organizations and the organized. In the spirit of Roland Calori's own work, the prize reflects pluralism in research traditions and diversity of paradigms.
A related paper on their Dynamic Model of Situated Cognition won the ‘Best Paper Award’ from the Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (CCRTS) meeting in June 2006 and was the Plenary Presentation at the 11th ICCRTS meeting in September 2006 in Cambridge, England.
Congratulations to Dr. Miller and Dr. Shattuck!
Extending Naturalistic Decision Making to Complex Organizations: A Dynamic Model of Situated Cognition Abstract
Naturalistic decision making (NDM) has become established as a methodological and theoretical perspective. It describes how practitioners actually make decisions in complex domains. However, NDM theories tend to focus on the human agents in the system. We extend the NDM perspective to include the technological agents in complex systems and introduce the dynamic model of situated cognition. We describe the general characteristics of NDM and the field of situated cognition, and provide a detailed description of our model. We then apply the model to a recent accident in which a US Navy submarine (USS Greeneville) collided with a Japanese fishing vessel (Ehime Maru). The discussion of the accident illustrates how decisions made are often a result of the interaction between a variety of technological and human agents and how errors introduced into the complex system can propagate through it in unintended ways. We argue that the dynamic model of situated cognition can be used to describe activities in virtually any complex domain.
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