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Jonathon Cummings

Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120
A307 Fuqua Sch. of Bus., Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Jonathon Cummings is a Professor of Management at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. After completing his dissertation and post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University, he spent three years at the MIT Sloan School of Management as an Assistant Professor, where he received an NSF Early Career Award for his research on innovation in geographically dispersed teams and networks. His subsequent research has focused on virtual teams in corporations as well as collaboration in science, and his publications have appeared in outlets across a number of fields, including Organizational Behavior (e.g., Management Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review), Information Systems (e.g., MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research), Human-Computer Interaction (e.g., CHI, CSCW, CACM), Science Policy (e.g., Social Studies of Science, Research Policy), and Psychology (e.g., Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Psychology).

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of Business Administration · 2017 - Present Fuqua School of Business

Recent Publications


Teamwork Coaching in the Research Development Process

Journal Article Small Group Research · December 1, 2024 Proposal teams play a critical, yet understudied, role in team science. This study advances our understanding of teamwork coaching in the research development (RD) process by analyzing proposal support in a U.S. Medical School (2009–2019). We find that tea ... Full text Cite

Knowledge creation through collaboration: The role of shared institutional affiliations and physical proximity.

Journal Article Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · November 2021 This paper examines how shared affiliations within an institution (e.g., same primary appointment, same secondary appointment, same research center, same laboratory/facility) and physical proximity (e.g., walking distance between collaborator offices) shap ... Full text Cite

Where the boss sits matters: Work interactions among employees and physical proximity in the office

Conference Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Organizing the Firm for Innovation: A Bridge Between Innovation Strategy and Implementation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2020

Science Policy Research Report: Funding Team Science

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018

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Education, Training & Certifications


Carnegie Mellon University · 2001 Ph.D.