Jonathon Cummings

Conference Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings · 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 text Cite

Striking a balance: The impact of balanced versus imbalanced subgroups on work team performance

Conference Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings · 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 ... Full text Cite

A faultline-based model of team leadership

Conference Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings · 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 ... Full text Cite

Does nationality matter in transnational teams? Conceptualizing barriers to knowledge seeking

Conference Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings · 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 ... Full text Cite

A conceptual model of prior experience variety, knowledge processes, and group performance

Conference Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings · January 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 ... Cite

COORDINATION AND SUCCESS IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Cite

Research on teams with multiple boundaries

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Full text Cite