Work Groups, Structural Diversity, and Knowledge Sharing in a Global Organization

By Jonathon N. Cummings. Management Sciences, 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Strategy and Management

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Unfolding the Proactive Process for Creativity (2012, background): “Research on information exchange has focused on the team level (e.g., Ancona & Caldwell, 1992; Cummings, 2004; Tiwana & McLean, 2005), with team performance as the major dependent variable of interest (e.g., Bunderson & Sutcliffe, 2002; Johnson et al., 2006; Keller, 2001; Mesmer-Magnus & DeChurch,…”
Dimensions of Social Capital and Firm Competitiveness Improvement: The Mediating Role of Information Sharing (2007, positive): “More recently, information sharing or knowledge sharing (which will be interchangeable with information sharing hereinafter) was found to contribute positively to firm performance (Cummings, 2004; Kulp et al., 2004).”
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, neutral): “Concerning the spatial dimension of experience, an organization's experience can be geographically concentrated or geographically dispersed (Cummings, 2004; Gibson & Gibbs, 2006).”
The Effect of Organizational Characteristics on the Appointment of Nonfamily Managers in Private Family Firms (2015, background): “However, our study focuses on interactions that are difficult to explain with a reverse causation logic (Cummings, 2004).”
The Effects of Team Diversity on Team Outcomes: A Meta-Analytic Review of Team Demography (2007, neutral): “The remaining two studies, Cumming’s (2004) and Somech’s (2006), were dropped in the coding process, as they examined teams performing multiple tasks and did not provide adequate descriptions for the task classification.”
Go (Con)figure: Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams (2009, neutral): “In addition to these spatio-temporal and socio-demographic dynamics, work in GDTs is also affected by teams’ geographic configuration, which O’Leary and Cummings (2007) define as the number of geographically dispersed sites and the relative number of team members at those sites, independent of the s”
Transactional leadership and organizational creativity: Examining the mediating role of knowledge sharing behavior (2017, methodology): “KSB was measured by a scale developed by Bock and Kim (2002) having 6-items and Cummings (2004).”
Innovation in a global consulting firm: when the problem is too much diversity (2010, background): “Mgmt. J., 31: 841–872 (2010) DOI: 10.1002/smj of information and knowledge (Ancona and Caldwell, 1992; Cummings, 2004).”
Design Considerations for Collaborative Visual Analytics (2007, neutral): “Organizational studies [16, 42] find that increased group diversity can lead to greater coverage of information and improved decision making.”
Multilevel Readiness to Organizational Change: A Conceptual Approach (2013, background): “Groups can have powerful effects on members’ behaviours, beliefs and values, exerting pressure on members to conform to norms, which govern group behaviour (J.N. Cummings 2004).”