John C. Lammers
Contact Information
Office: 228 Lincoln Hall
Telephone: (217) 333-8912
Email: jclammer@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor
Director of Master's Program in Applied Communication
Bio
Professor Lammers’ research bridges interests in organizational communication and health communication by studying communication in health care organizations, including hospital teams, managed care practices, surgical teams, and public health organizations. Recent projects have examined the role of professionalism in health organizations as an example of institutional influences in organizational life. He teaches courses on organizational communication, health communication, and leadership. He is currently working to extend the institutional theory of organizational communication beyond health organizations.
Curriculum Vitae
Experience
- Organizational communication, health communication, work teams in health care settings, leadership and communication in public health care.
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis
- Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Selected Publications
Barbour, J. B., & Lammers, J. C. (In Press). Health Care Institutions, Medical Organizing, and Physicians: A Multilevel Analysis. Management Communication Quarterly.
Lammers, J. C., & Barbour, J. B. (2006). An institutional theory of organizational communication. Communication Theory, 16, (2006) 356–377.
Lammers, J. C., Lindholm, K., & Hazeu, H. (2004). Re-organized medical practice: An institutional perspective on neonatal care. In E. Ray, Health Communication in Practice: a Case Study Approach (pp. 297-310). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Lammers, J. C., Barbour, J., & Duggan, A. (2003). Organizational forms of the provision of health care: An institutional perspective. In T. Thompson, A. Dorsey, K. Miller, & R. Parrot (Eds.). Handbook of health communication (pp. 319-345). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Lammers, J. C. (2003). An institutional perspective on communicating corporate responsibility. Management Communication Quarterly, 16, 618-624.