Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Friends and Enemies Within: The Roles of Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams 

      Boyer O'Leary, Michael; Mortensen, Mark (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Managment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-02-01)
      Research regarding geographically dispersed teams (GDTs) is increasingly common and has yielded many insights into how spatio-temporal and socio-demographic factors affect GDT functioning and performance. Largely missing, ...

    • Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks 

      Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Van Alstyne, Marshall (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007-07-31)
      We examine the drivers of diffusion of information through organizations and the effects on performance. In particular, we ask: What predicts the likelihood of an individual becoming aware of a strategic piece of information, ...

    • Fuzzy Teams: Why do teams disagree on their membership, and what does it mean? 

      Mortensen, Mark (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-02-01)
      Organizations increasingly rely on teams as fundamental building blocks - a focus mirrored by a long legacy of research on teams. Due to the complexity of team dynamics and processes within teams and small groups, to date ...