Research publications

Research publications

"Organizational innovation under constraints: the case of Covid patients’ flow management"

Health Services Management Research. 2022.

Marie-Léandre Gomez, Marie Kerveillant, Matthieu Langlois, Nicolas Lot, Mathieu Raux.

Organizing for special forces interventions: The key role of feedback and preparation in developing chronotopic competence.

2022: Thirteenth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies (PROS), thematic track (Organizing on the Precipice: Process Studies in Extreme Contexts). 

Marie-Léandre Gomez, Marie Kerveillant, Matthieu Langlois, Philippe Lorino, Damien Mourey

The intertwined dimensions of time and space in disruptive situations: The case of rapid tactical evacuation during the Bataclan terrorist attack

2022: 38th EGOS colloquium, track 22 Depth, Verticality and Visibility in Organizing: Integrating Space and Time.

Marie-Léandre Gomez, Marie Kerveillant, Matthieu Langlois, Philippe Lorino, Damien Mourey

How to prepare for extreme contexts:  developing a chronotopic competence through training

EGOS 2021 Sub-theme 14 The Role of Temporality and Coordination in Extreme Contexts

Marie-Léandre Gomez, Marie Kerveillant, Matthieu Langlois, Philippe Lorino, Damien Mourey

Abstract: One of the key challenges for fast-response organizations operating in extreme contexts is to get prepared for situations that are difficult to forecast, plan and even hard to conceive or imagine. Such situations require a timely response in order to mitigate harmful outcomes and those organizations need to learn to coordinate, and to be able to dynamically build answers when facing complex and unknown settings. This paper aims to analyze how training and preparing for extreme contexts can take place in such fast-response organizations.

Organizing during disruptive events: the case of rapid tactical evacuation during the Bataclan terrorist attack

EGOS 2020 Sub-theme 14 The Role of Organizing in Extreme Contexts

Marie-Léandre Gomez, Marie Kerveillant, Matthieu Langlois, Philippe Lorino, Damien Mourey

Abstract: This paper intends to contribute to a better understanding of how organizations prepare and respond to disruptive events. Based on the analysis of the Bataclan terrorist attack that occurred in Paris in November 2015, it shows that preparation, and action during the crisis is actually a situated activity of organizing space and time in a blended manner in collective organization and action. The action of the tactical medical team, integrated into the police teams of the intervention forces consisted in apprehending, creating and setting in motion a space that allows them to control time, in order to speed up the care of victims.