Running Head: Incident Team Breakdowns Breakdowns in Coordinated Decision Making At and Above the Incident Management Team Level: An analysis of three large scale Australian Wildfires Chris Bearman 1,4 (c.bearman@cqu.edu.au)*, Jared A Grunwald 1,4 (j.grunwald@cqu.edu.au), Benjamin P Brooks 2,4 (bpbrooks@amc.edu.au) and Christine Owen 3,4 (christine.owen@utas.edu.au) 1 Central Queensland University, Appleton Institute, 44 Greenhill Road, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. 2 University of Tasmania, Maritime Way, Newnham, Tasmania, Australia. 3 University of Tasmania, Private Bag 66, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 4 Bushfire CRC, Australia *Corresponding Author Dr Chris Bearman, Central Queensland University, Appleton Institute, 44 Greenhill Road, Adelaide, Telephone 08 8378 4514, Email: c.bearman@cqu.edu.au