Coordination and Convention

The Organization of the Concert World

Bibliographic Data

ID2480914
AuthorsSamuel Gilmore (University of California, Irvine, corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume10
Issue2
Pages209-227
Publication date1987-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSymbolic Interaction (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0195-6086 • E-ISSN: 1533-8665
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/si.1987.10.2.209
OpenAlexW2026647064
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited17

The organization of collaborative work is generally the focus of formal organization researchers. This article examines collaboration organized through an alternative framework, the 'social world.' The substantive focus is the concert world, where the interdependent activities of composition and performance are routinely coordinated to produce concerts. Coordination of these activities takes place through musical conventions, which act as an alternative to administrative processes used in formal organization. But the use of conventions vary in the concert world depending on the organizational characteristics of concert collaboration, called 'coordination problems', and the aesthetic interests of participants. The first part of this article develops a model to assess coordination problems in social worlds, and the second part of the article uses the model to analyze collaboration in repertory, academic, and avant-garde concert activities

Convention · Formal organization · Interdependence · Knowledge management · Linguistics · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Accounting and Organizational Management · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Engineering · Management and Organizational Studies

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