Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Extending Construal Level Theory to Distributed Teams: Perception and Evaluation of Distant Others 

      Wilson, Jeanne; Crisp, Brad; Mortensen, Mark (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-08-13)
      Building on prior research on distributed teams that has identified physical and temporal distance as impediments to collaboration and relationship development, this paper explores how and why we treat geographically distant ...

    • Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence 

      Malone, Thomas W.; Laubacher, Robert; Dellarocas, Chrysanthos (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Management, 2009-02-01)
      Over the past decade, the rise of the Internet has enabled the emergence of surprising new forms of collective intelligence. Examples include Google, Wikipedia, Threadless, and many others. To take advantage of the ...

    • Understanding Virtual Team Performance: A Synthesis of Research on the Effects of Team Design, Processes, and States 

      Mortensen, Mark; Caya, Olivier; Pinsonneault, Alain (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
      Virtual teams are essential to the functioning of numerous organizations. They have been the subjects of much research, resulting in a growing body of literature on the topic. Nevertheless, our understanding of the ...