Journal ArticleSmall Group Research · January 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleGroup Dynamics · March 1, 2018
In this article, we examine the construct of perceived task interdependence and propose that there is variation in how members perceive interdependence with one another, even within the same team. In particular, we introduce centrality asymmetry-the extent ...
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Conference78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2018 · January 1, 2018
The diffusion of innovations is a central problem in the study of online and offline social networks. Although a considerable amount of attention has been paid to when innovations are adopted, few studies have considered the reverse process of when innovat ...
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Chapter · April 5, 2017
We review prior research on team innovation to advance understanding of the learning cycles that teams undergo when they develop new products and services. We refer to the dynamic sequences of variation, selection, and retention as team innovation cycles. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Studies · January 10, 2015
Do international or non-international differences between members matter most for multinational corporation (MNC) teams? We consider two types of international differences, arising from geographic locations and national origins, and two types of non-intern ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of applied psychology · September 2013
Scholars have invoked subgroups in a number of theories related to teams, yet certain tensions in the literature remain unresolved. In this article, we address 2 of these tensions, both relating to how subgroups are configured in work teams: (a) whether te ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological science · June 2013
Heterogeneous groups are valuable, but differences among members can weaken group identification. Weak group identification may be especially problematic in larger groups, which, in contrast with smaller groups, require more attention to motivating members ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2013
What should work-group leaders make sure to do when members are geographically dispersed rather than collocated? This chapter offers a simple answer that group leaders often fail to appreciate—communicate frequently with members. Researchers have demonstra ...
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Journal ArticleAcademy of Management Review · July 1, 2012
Although subgroups are a widely studied component of work teams, much of the literature on subgroups has remained loosely connected and key questions remain unanswered. We integrate research on faultlines, diversity, and intergroup processes to develop a t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Organizational Behavior · April 1, 2012
Geographically dispersed teams whose members do not allocate all of their time to a single team increasingly carry out knowledge-intensive work in multinational organizations. Taking an attention-based view of team design, we investigate the antecedents an ...
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Chapter · March 22, 2012
This chapter examines the use of the Internet by young people to maintain social ties after they move from high school to college. It finds that when young adults move away from home to go to college, technology-mediated communication retards the natural d ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Transactions on Engineering Management · February 1, 2012
Technical teams are often distributed across geographic locations and across time zones. While spatial and time separation are often correlated, most prior studies have only focused on one or the other. As a consequence, their respective effects may be con ...
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Journal ArticleSmall Group Research · December 1, 2011
Knowledge-intensive teams rely on the task-relevant knowledge held by members to perform effectively. In this article, we focus on critical knowledge, defined as the most influential information, know-how, or feedback that contributes directly to task outc ...
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Journal Article2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy: Building Capacity for Scientific Innovation and Outcomes, ACSIP 2011, Proceedings · November 21, 2011
Dramatic changes in the practice of science over the past half a century, including trends towards working in teams and on large projects, and geographically distributed and interdisciplinary collaboration, have created opportunities and challenges for sci ...
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ConferenceAcademy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011 · January 1, 2011
A longstanding controversy in research on work teams is whether teams are better off with a balanced configuration of subgroups in which there are no majorities and minorities, or an imbalanced configuration of subgroups in which majorities and minorities ...
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Journal ArticleSmall Group Research · January 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleGroup Dynamics · March 1, 2018
In this article, we examine the construct of perceived task interdependence and propose that there is variation in how members perceive interdependence with one another, even within the same team. In particular, we introduce centrality asymmetry-the extent ...
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Conference78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2018 · January 1, 2018
The diffusion of innovations is a central problem in the study of online and offline social networks. Although a considerable amount of attention has been paid to when innovations are adopted, few studies have considered the reverse process of when innovat ...
Full textCite
Chapter · April 5, 2017
We review prior research on team innovation to advance understanding of the learning cycles that teams undergo when they develop new products and services. We refer to the dynamic sequences of variation, selection, and retention as team innovation cycles. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Studies · January 10, 2015
Do international or non-international differences between members matter most for multinational corporation (MNC) teams? We consider two types of international differences, arising from geographic locations and national origins, and two types of non-intern ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of applied psychology · September 2013
Scholars have invoked subgroups in a number of theories related to teams, yet certain tensions in the literature remain unresolved. In this article, we address 2 of these tensions, both relating to how subgroups are configured in work teams: (a) whether te ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological science · June 2013
Heterogeneous groups are valuable, but differences among members can weaken group identification. Weak group identification may be especially problematic in larger groups, which, in contrast with smaller groups, require more attention to motivating members ...
Full textCite
Chapter · January 1, 2013
What should work-group leaders make sure to do when members are geographically dispersed rather than collocated? This chapter offers a simple answer that group leaders often fail to appreciate—communicate frequently with members. Researchers have demonstra ...
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Journal ArticleAcademy of Management Review · July 1, 2012
Although subgroups are a widely studied component of work teams, much of the literature on subgroups has remained loosely connected and key questions remain unanswered. We integrate research on faultlines, diversity, and intergroup processes to develop a t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Organizational Behavior · April 1, 2012
Geographically dispersed teams whose members do not allocate all of their time to a single team increasingly carry out knowledge-intensive work in multinational organizations. Taking an attention-based view of team design, we investigate the antecedents an ...
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Chapter · March 22, 2012
This chapter examines the use of the Internet by young people to maintain social ties after they move from high school to college. It finds that when young adults move away from home to go to college, technology-mediated communication retards the natural d ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Transactions on Engineering Management · February 1, 2012
Technical teams are often distributed across geographic locations and across time zones. While spatial and time separation are often correlated, most prior studies have only focused on one or the other. As a consequence, their respective effects may be con ...
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Journal ArticleSmall Group Research · December 1, 2011
Knowledge-intensive teams rely on the task-relevant knowledge held by members to perform effectively. In this article, we focus on critical knowledge, defined as the most influential information, know-how, or feedback that contributes directly to task outc ...
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Journal Article2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy: Building Capacity for Scientific Innovation and Outcomes, ACSIP 2011, Proceedings · November 21, 2011
Dramatic changes in the practice of science over the past half a century, including trends towards working in teams and on large projects, and geographically distributed and interdisciplinary collaboration, have created opportunities and challenges for sci ...
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ConferenceAcademy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011 · January 1, 2011
A longstanding controversy in research on work teams is whether teams are better off with a balanced configuration of subgroups in which there are no majorities and minorities, or an imbalanced configuration of subgroups in which majorities and minorities ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW · January 1, 2011
Science policy across the world emphasizes the desirability of research teams that can integrate diverse perspectives and expertise into new knowledge, methods, and products. However, integration in research work is not well understood. Based on retrospect ...
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Journal ArticleConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings · January 1, 2011
The CHI community has led efforts to support teamwork, but has neglected team disruption, as may occur if team members relocate to another institution. We studied moves in 548 interdisciplinary research projects with 2691 researchers (PIs). Moves, and thus ...
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Journal ArticleAcademy of Management 2009 Annual Meeting: Green Management Matters, AOM 2009 · December 1, 2009
Given that many work teams operate in proximate environments where member differences are salient and could lead to boundaries within a team, recent advances in diversity research would suggest that new approaches to the leadership of work teams are needed ...
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ConferenceAcademy of Management 2009 Annual Meeting: Green Management Matters, AOM 2009 · January 1, 2009
Given that many work teams operate in proximate environments where member differences are salient and could lead to boundaries within a team, recent advances in diversity research would suggest that new approaches to the leadership of work teams are needed ...
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Journal ArticleInformation Systems Research · January 1, 2009
In globally distributed projects, members have to deal with spatial boundaries (different cities) and temporal Iboundaries (different work hours) because other members are often in cities within and across time zones. For pairs of members with spatial boun ...
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Journal ArticleConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings · December 22, 2008
Many observers have praised new communication technologies for providing convenient and affordable tools for maintaining relationships at a distance. Yet the precise role of mediated communication in relationship maintenance has been difficult to isolate. ...
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Journal ArticleAcademy of Management 2008 Annual Meeting: The Questions We Ask, AOM 2008 · December 1, 2008
In contrast to prevailing theories that emphasize the importance of nationality differences in transnational teams, we argue that there are multiple differences that can hinder collaboration among transnational team members. Distinguishing person-based fro ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW · December 1, 2008
Two recent studies of over 500 interdisciplinary research projects have documented comparatively poor outcomes of more distributed projects and the failed coordination mechanisms that partly account for these problems. In this paper we report results of an ...
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ConferenceAcademy of Management 2008 Annual Meeting: The Questions We Ask, AOM 2008 · January 1, 2008
In contrast to prevailing theories that emphasize the importance of nationality differences in transnational teams, we argue that there are multiple differences that can hinder collaboration among transnational team members. Distinguishing person-based fro ...
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Journal ArticleResearch Policy · December 1, 2007
Multi-university collaborations draw on diverse resources and expertise, but they impose coordination costs for bridging institutional differences and geographic distance. We report a study of the coordination activities and project outcomes of 491 researc ...
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Journal ArticleAcademy of Management 2007 Annual Meeting: Doing Well by Doing Good, AOM 2007 · December 1, 2007
Existing literature has largely focused on the amount of experience with scant attention on the variety of prior experience. This paper develops the construct of prior experience variety, and argues that individuals with diverse prior experience not only a ...
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Journal ArticleIFIP International Federation for Information Processing · October 15, 2007
While spatial boundaries include the geographic differences among team members (different cities), temporal boundaries include the workday differences among team members (different time zones). In global teams members have to deal with both spatial and tem ...
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Journal ArticleMIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems · January 1, 2007
As organizations operate across greater distances, scholars are increasingly interested in the work of geographically dispersed teams and the technologies that they use to communicate and coordinate their work. However, research has generally not specified ...
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Journal ArticleConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings · July 17, 2006
This paper examines how routine uses of the Internet for communication with family and friends and for entertainment may serve as indicators of overall levels of psychological well-being. At the same time, changes in psychological well-being in response to ...
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Chapter · July 6, 2006
This book brings together the leading researchers currently investigating the impact of information and communication technology outside of the workplace. ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Networks · January 1, 2006
We present a descriptive model of developmental networks - interpersonal ties who take an active interest in and concerted action to advance one's career - and argue that both network structure and relational content are necessary for understanding how ind ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Studies of Science · October 31, 2005
Scientific and engineering research increasingly involves multidisciplinary collaboration, sometimes across multiple organizations. Technological advances have made such cross-boundary projects possible, yet they can carry high coordination costs. This stu ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW · December 1, 2004
This panel will provide a forum for a discussion of important and timely issues surrounding the global deployment of cyberinfrastructure to support science and engineering research activities. Representatives of funding agencies, existing cyberinfrastructu ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · January 1, 2004
Effective work groups engage in external knowledge sharing - the exchange of information, know-how, and feedback with customers, organizational experts, and others outside of the group. This paper argues that the value of external knowledge sharing increas ...
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Journal ArticleAcademy of Management Journal · January 1, 2004
We argue that individual performance in knowledge-intensive work is associated with properties of both networks and ties. Relationships crossing organizational boundaries, physical barriers, or hierarchical levels can, like networks, provide unique informa ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Networks · July 1, 2003
Over the past several decades, social network research has favored either ego-centric (e.g. employee) or bounded networks (e.g. organization) as the primary unit of analysis. This paper revitalizes a focus on the work group, which includes structural prope ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003 · January 1, 2003
The research enterprise increasingly involves multidisciplinary collaboration, sometimes over geographic distance. Technological advances have made these collaborations possible, and the history of past innovations suggests these collaborations are desirab ...
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Journal ArticleOrganizational Research Methods · January 1, 2003
Missing data are a common problem in organizational research. Missing data can occur due to attrition in a longitudinal study or nonresponse to questionnaire items in a laboratory or field setting. Improper treatments of missing data (e.g., listwise deleti ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Management Information Systems · January 1, 2003
Numerous methodological issues arise when studying teams that span multiple boundaries. The main purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about the challenges of conducting field research on teams in global firms. Based on field research across multiple ...
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Journal ArticleCommunications of the ACM · July 1, 2002
Online relationships are less valuable than offline ones. Indeed, their net benefit depends on whether they supplement or substitute for offline social relationships. ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · January 1, 2002
The main purpose of the paper is to discuss: (a) types of boundaries found in field research on teams; (b) methodological challenges encountered when examining teams that cross boundaries; and (c) possible research design solutions. Based on our own field ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social Issues · January 1, 2002
Kraut et al. (1998) reported negative effects of using the Internet on social involvement and psychological well-being among new Internet users in 1995-96. We called the effects a "paradox" because participants used the Internet heavily for communication, ...
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Journal ArticleInformation Society · January 1, 2002
The people who use computers and the ways they use them have changed substantially over the past 25 years. In the beginning highly educated people, mostly men, in technical professions used computers for work, but over time a much broader range of people a ...
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Journal ArticleGroup Dynamics · January 1, 2002
A random sample survey of an online self-help group for people with hearing loss was conducted. Two factors predicted active participation in the group: a lack of real-world social support and being comparatively effective (having less disability, coping m ...
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Journal ArticleConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings · December 1, 2001
People use a variety of media to communicate with family and friends, though the evidence is sparse regarding whether differences in the quality of social relationships can be explained, in part, by differences in the media they use. Participants (N=446) i ...
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