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
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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 CiteKnowledge 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 CiteWhere 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 CiteRecent Grants
Impact of Primary Care Clinician Interdependence and Coordination on Quality of Care Delivered to Complex Older Patients with Diabetes
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2022Organizing the Firm for Innovation: A Bridge Between Innovation Strategy and Implementation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2020Science Policy Research Report: Funding Team Science
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Carnegie Mellon University ·
2001
Ph.D.