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Learning, Creativity and Collaboration in Organisations
A strategy for corporate project ‘buy-in’
Making use of the latest advances in the understanding of neuroscience can help make us better leaders and project managers. (Proceedings Projekte & Emotional Intelligenz conference Vienna also Principles of Project Management series, APM)
The Effect of Customer Feedback and Organizational Learning on Product Innovation
What is the role of customer feedback and organizational learning in the design of new generation of products?
Collaboration Networks and Academic Performance
What is the impact of awareness, discussion and collaboration networks on scholarly productivity and impact? A study of interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary academic collaboration in a top USA engineering school. (paper under review)
Bottlenecks and Productivity in White-Collar (Knowledge-intensive) Work
How to improve the efficiency of information flow in
knowledge-intensive complex organisations? How to identify bottleneck work
units and individuals? Which metrics can be used to...more
Creativity in Cross-Functional and Interdisciplinary Teams
How do differences in the underlying perspectives and
assumptions of group members shape the nature and ultimate creativity of small
groups? How does the creative process differ in such diverse teams from more
homogeneous teams?
Exploring the Creative Process in Healthcare Policy Teams
This project explores the creative processes that occur
naturally in interdisciplinary teams developing healthcare IT policy. How does
engagement with different types of processes influence the generation and
selection of new....more
Interpersonal Dynamics and Decision Making in a Corporate Boardroom
How do influence attempts by members of a corporate board of
a large manufacturing company lead to counter-influence strategies,
interpersonal dynamics, and decisions? This....More
Pathways to Innovation in Knowledge Transfer Teams
This research investigates innovation in academic knowledge
transfer teams. Through what path do cross-organizational teams develop over
time? How does this path influence the ability of the team to gain...more
Intellectual Game Play in Knowledge Work
What is the relationship between play and creativity? How
can play support or hinder creativity in organizations? What are the
organizational structures and processes that support intellectual play at work?
This research explores the value of play to knowledge work.
Mutually Reinforcing Dynamics of Idea Generation and Idea Evaluation in Groups
This research challenges the conventional wisdom that the
brainstorming approach of separating idea generation and idea evaluation are
optimal for promoting creativity in groups. It ...more
Universities as engines for industrial growth
How has the rise of new science-based industries altered the organization of universities? A study of the development of university-industry relationships in Silicon Valley details the critical role of universities in the region’s success and outlines ...more
Assessing the performance of Silicon Valley spin-off firms
Study on Silicon Valley firms and the academic laboratories these firms were spun off from. Findings highlight a significant impact of various organizational features of “founding laboratories” on the performance of firms in...more
Enhancing R&D productivity through academic collaborations
The study’s database comprises detailed information on activities in the academic community of 4,780 American and British science-based firms and the impact of these activities on R&D productivity. Findings outline strategic...more
Managing science-led innovation in high-tech firms
Which organizational levers do managers have at their
disposal in organizing science-led R&D? Case studies highlight formal
structures, routines, and cultures that distinguish successful science-based
ventures (International workshop planned at ...more
Business and Human Rights
What is the
role of companies in the international regime of human rights? Companies have
mainly taken action by implementing measures in the work place and the vicinity
of their operations. Such action has enabled people to enjoy their ...more
What organizational designs shape learning outcomes in the long run?
Some organizational arrangements enable better coordination across interdependent contributors than others. Beyond coordination, elements of formal structure may also enable ...more
Treating poor prognosis patients leads to higher learning rates in fertility care
Difficult undertakings offer valuable opportunities for learning because knowledge and practices developed as a consequence of dealing with difficult cases spill over and have positive ...more
Managing creativity by design: Coordinating creative inputs in comic strip production
Can task design stand as a recipe for creativity? Or is it
that due process and accountability doesn’t agree with designer stubble and
artistic panache? This study investigates the...more
Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship
What are the defining characteristics of knowledge intensive
entrepreneurship? (funded by EU)
Project Leader: Mila Striukova
Patent value
What value can be created from patents and where does it
reside? (published in International
Journal of Intellectual Property Management, Journal of Intellectual Capital, International Journal
of Intellectual Property ...more
All inclusive business model
How can you offer everything and yet remain competitive?(Service Business) ....more
Project Leader: Mila Striukova
Public Venture Capital
Do Venture Capital trust solve the problem of
underinvestment in young companies? (published in International Journal of
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management)
Vision vs. Execution: A Construal Level Perspective on Contextual Ambidexterity
Pressures for strategic renewal and adaptation lead managers to engage in paradoxical thinking for trying to reconcile trade-offs between continuity and change. We explore the relation...more
Reputation in Open Source Communities
What determines the reputation and competence in open source
communities? (forthcoming in Organization
Science)
Institutional Logic of Open Source Projects
Why and how do companies compete with or participate in
voluntary open source software projects?
Project Leader: Soong Moon Kang
Reputations and Perceptions in Organizations
How biased are our perceptions of individual reputations in
organizations and how they affect performance?
Project Leader: Soong Moon Kang
Centrality and Charisma: Comparing How Leader Networks and Attributions Affect Team Performance
For team leaders, is one of the benefits of being central in the team advice network a more favorable assessment of personality – being seen by your subordinates as charismatic? (Published in Journal of Applied Psychology in 2011)
Organizational Network Perceptions Versus Reality: A Small World after All?
How
do people keep track of and make sense of social network connections in
organizational settings? (Published in Organizational Behavior and
Human Decision Processes in 2008)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
Emotion helpers: The Role of High Positive Affectivity and High Self-Monitoring Managers
Every organizational system depends on protective and creative behavior to counter potentially damaging developments such as the occurrence and potential spread of negative emotions. But from where are these protective behaviors likely to spring? (Published in Personnel Psychology in 2007)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
The Social Networks of High and Low Self Monitors: Implications for Workplace Performance
Is it personality or social network connections that help people do well in their work, or is it some combination? (Published in Administrative Science Quarterly in 2001)
Do Chameleons Get Ahead? The Effects of Self-Monitoring on Managerial Careers
Who gets ahead in managerial careers, the true-to-themselves who are
consistent in their attitudes and behaviors, or the chameleons who
adjust their expressions and behaviors depending on the situation?
(Published in Academy of Management Journal in 1994)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
The Ripple Effect of Personality on Social Structure: Self-Monitoring Origins of Network Brokerage
Individuals differ in the extent to which they occupy social network brokerage positions, connecting people who are themselves unconnected. But do these brokers tend to be defined in terms of a chameleon-like personality? (Published in Journal of Applied Psychology in 2008)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
Bringing the Individual Back in: a Structural Analysis of the Internal Market for Reputation in Organizations
Can your reputation as a good worker be boosted by people's erroneous
impression that you have a high-status friend? (Published in Academy of
Management Journal in 1994)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
Social Network Analysis: Foundations and Frontiers on Advantage
We
provide an overview of social network analysis and discuss frontiers of
advantage contingent on personality, cognition, embeddedness, and
dynamics. (Forthcoming in Annual Review of Psychology)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
Organizational Social Network Research: Core Ideas and Key Debates
What are the leading ideas at the heart of social network research, and how do they inform current debates and research prospects? (Published in Academy of Management Annals in 2010)
From Blue Sky Research to Problem Solving: a Philosophy of Science Theory of New Knowledge Production
What
are the different kinds of knowledge that are produced, the indicators
of progress, the characteristic methods, and the exemplar organizations?
(Published in Academy of Management Review in 2011
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
Strategic Use of Emotional Intelligence in Organizational Settings: Exploring the Dark Side
Can emotionally intelligent people use their skills to advance their
own interests, even at the expense of others? (Published in Research in
Organizational Behavior in 2010)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
A Paradigm Too Far? A Dynamic Stability Reconsideration of the Social Network Research Program
What are the implications of viewing organizational networks as complex
adaptive systems that exhibit both persistence and change? (Published in
Academy of Management Review in 2006)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
Zooming in and out: Connecting Individuals and Collectivities at the Frontiers of Organizational Network Research
If both individuals and organizations are considered simultaneously in
terms of social networks, what kinds of new research are possible?
(Published in Organization Science in 2005)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
Necessity of Others – Mother of Invention
It has long been considered as fact that creativity is most evident when people are self-motivated (intrinsically) in their work. Looking at data from two organizations and supported by a laboratory study, we found that intrinsic motivation was much more effective when linked with a focus on others...more
Idea Flows – Mapping Innovation Identification
Do the CEO and the hourly employee judge creativity the same way? If not, corporate innovation programs asking employees to be creative may be doomed to failure. This research attempts to map how employees evaluate potentially creative new ideas within existing companies....more
Identifying Creativity at a Distance Contract Design for R&D Licensing
Creativity is a balance of novelty and usefulness. Yet how we evaluate ideas changes depending on how near or far we feel from the particular context. When people are close to a problem both novelty and usefulness of the solution are relevant....more
Maximizing Employee Creativity
How can we encourage employees to maximize their effort and creativity in working on problems? Perspective-taking is one way to encourage employees to focus on end users in solving problems...more
