Impacts of Perceived Environmental Variability on Patterns of Work Related Communication
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal
- Vol. 22 (3) , 482-500
- https://doi.org/10.5465/255739
Abstract
This study investigates the impact of environmental variability on communications within and outside a large R&D laboratory. For high performing subunits, intra-project communication was found to be contingent on the nature of the unit’s task; extra-unit communication was inversely related to perceived environmental variability, suggesting that communication with external areas may be mediated by special boundary roles.Keywords
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