E. Lawler, D. Finegold, G. Benson, and J. Conger discuss how many of the changes that are occurring in the business environment have significant implications for Corporate Boards. Together they are redefining the roles and activities of boards.
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What Makes Corporate Boards Effective
E. Lawler, D. Finegold, G. Benson, and J. Conger explain that several powerful forces are currently redefining the roles and activities of boardrooms, and they are not likely to diminish but rather to accelerate.
Resolving Communication Dilemmas in Database-Mediated Collaboration
Michael E. Kalman, Peter Monge, Janet Fulk, and Rebecca Heino discuss how in organizational settings, a communication dilemma exists whenever the interests of a collective (i.e., team, organization, interorganizational alliance) demand that people share privately held information but their individual interests instead motivate them to withhold it.
Fostering Intranet Knowledge-Sharing: An Integration of Transactive Memory and Public Goods Approaches
Andrea Hollingshead, Janet Fulk, and Peter Monge discuss how transactive memory theory is useful for predicting how organizational members use intranets to acquire, store and retrieve knowledge. Public Goods Theory is useful for predicting whom, how much, and when members will contribute and retrieve knowledge on intranets.
Twenty Years of Culture’s Consequences: A Review of the Empirical Research on Hofstede’s Cultural Value Dimensions
Since the publication of Hofstede’s book, researchers have utilized his framework in a variety of empirical studies. Bradley L. Kirkman and Cristina B. Gibson conduct a review that includes 127 empirical studies examining Hofstede’s cultural values framework published over the last 20 years.
Consultants in the Cupboard: How Type and Timing of Third-Party Involvement Affects Team Strategic Decision Outcomes
Cristina B. Gibson and Todd Saxton explain that despite the widespread involvement of third parties such as consultants in organizational decision making, little empirical research has explored the effect of these individuals on team outcomes.
The Efficacy Advantage: Factors Related to the Formation of Group Efficacy in Work Groups Across Cultures
Extending previous research investigating factors related to the formation of group efficacy, this research by Cristina B. Gibson examined predictors across cultures and groups of various types.
What You See is What You Get: Observing and Modeling the Relationship Between Readily Indentifiable and Non-Identifiable Heterogeneity Characteristics, Group Efficacy, and Team Outcomes
In this study, Kristi M. Lewis and Cristina B. Gibson observed and examined teams within a sample of 57 bank branches in order to better understand the consequences of two types of team heterogeneity: readily identifiable (gender and ethnicity) and non-readily identifiable (collectivism cultural values and tenure).
Team Effectiveness in Multinational Organizations: Evaluations Across Contexts
Incorporating team context into research and practice concerning team effectiveness in multinational organizations is an on-going challenge. Cristina B. Gibson, Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn, and Donald P. Schwab argue that a common measure of team effectiveness with demonstrated equivalence across contexts expands current theoretical developments and addresses team implementation needs.
Cross-Cultural Quality Improvement: Should the Focus Depend on Cultural Characteristics and Team Orientation?
In this paper by Cristina B. Gibson, the hypothesis that quality improvement efforts should be congruent with the level of field independence in a given cultural context and corresponding team quality orientations was examined.
What Stimulates Teams to Engage in Learning Behavior? The Influence of Composition and Context
This paper by Cristina B. Gibson and Freek Vermeulen examines team learning behavior; a set of actions that teams engage in to improve their outcomes.
Contextual Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity
The purpose of this study by Cristina B. Gibson and Julian Birkinshaw is to empirically investigate the predictors and consequences of organisational ambidexterity, defined as the capacity to achieve alignment and adaptability at the same time.