Prof. Dr. Mary Waller

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Tel.: +31 43-3883812;
Fax.: +31 43-3884893;
Email: mwaller@schulich.yorku.ca

Mary Waller earned her undergraduate degree in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Oklahoma, her Master’s degree in Management Science from the University of Colorado at Denver and her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Texas at Austin. She worked as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and as an associate professor at Tulane University (New Orleans) before joining the Department of Organization & Strategy at Maastricht University. Before beginning her graduate studies, she held various professional positions in petroleum, aviation, and software development organizations. Her research focuses on team dynamics during time-pressured, complex, and unexpected situations, and includes studies of aviation flight crews and nuclear power plant control room crews. She is a past Chair of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management, and she serves on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Review and Organization Science journals.

Position: Professor of Team Dynamics

Specialization: Team dynamics under time pressure and crisis situations.

PhD: University of Texas at Austin, 1995. Title of dissertation: Multitasking in Work Groups. Supervisors: Prof. dr. Janet Dukerich and Prof. dr. Robert Helmreich.

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Selected publications:

• Bluedorn, A.C., Waller, M.J. 2006. The stewardship of the temporal commons. In B. Staw (ed.), Research In Organizational Behavior, v. 27, pp. 365 - 406. Oxford: Elsevier.

• Blount-Lyon, S., Waller, M.J., Leroy, S. 2005. The effects of temporal uncertainty on temporal coordination in organizations. In W. Starbuck and M. Farjoun (eds.), Management Lessons from the Columbia Disaster, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

• Waller, M.J., Gupta, N., & Giambatista, R. 2004. Effects of adaptive behaviors and shared mental model development on control crew performance. Management Science, 50: 1534-1544.

• Waller, M.J., Zellmer-Bruhn, M., & Giambatista, R.C. 2002. Watching the clock: Team pacing behaviors under deadlines. Academy of Management Journal, 45: 1046-1055.

• Waller, M.J., Conte, J.M., Gibson, C.B., & Carpenter, M.A. 2001. The effect of individual perceptions of deadlines on team performance. Academy of Management Review, 26: 586-600.

• Waller, M.J. 1999. The timing of adaptive group responses to nonroutine events. Academy of Management Journal, 42: 127-137.