Publications

Research Summary

Overview

By: Alexandra C. Feldberg

Allie's research focuses on diversity, gender, and knowledge within organizations. View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Transfer; Bias; Technology; Diversity; Gender; Demographics; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Banking Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Financial Services Industry; Retail Industry; Travel Industry

2009
Article

Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance

By: Heidi K. Gardner

Why do some teams fail to use their members' knowledge effectively, even after having correctly identified each other's expertise? This paper identifies performance pressure as a critical barrier to effective knowledge utilization in teams. I theorize that performance... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams

12 Aug 2018 - 14 Aug 2018
Conference Presentation

Abstraction, Knowledge Flows, and the Rapid Dissemination of Emerging Technologies

By: Willy C. Shih

Many emerging technologies are remarkably complex and embody high levels of technological sophistication, and they often are key enablers for new products and services. Yet the speed of dispersal of the know-how required to employ these technologies and foster... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination

November 2001
Article

Leveraging the Customer Base: Creating Competitive Advantage Through Knowledge Management

By: Elie Ofek and Miklos Sarvary

Keywords: Customers; Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Management

2012
Other Unpublished Work

Selection, Reallocation, and Knowledge Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Productivity Gains from Multinational Activity

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen

The impact of multinational activity on host-country productivity has been a major topic of economic research. A positive impact can be attributed to knowledge spillovers from foreign multinational to domestic firms or a less stressed, alternative explanation—firm... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Supply and Industry; Knowledge; Manufacturing Industry

01 Apr 2010
Conference Presentation

The Strategic Use of Architectural Knowledge by Entrepreneurial Firms

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Strategy; Design; Knowledge; Entrepreneurship

09 Nov 2022
Podcast

Cal Newport on knowledge work, Part 1: The concentration deficit

Computer scientist, author, and New Yorker writer Cal Newport argues that the way we organize cognitive work ignores basic neuroscience. Also: how the pandemic deepened the digital communications morass; how autonomy without structure is bad for knowledge workers;... View Details

17 Jul 2024
News

Close Proximity Is the Key to Knowledge Spillovers Among Startups

Article

Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Geography

2002
Chapter

Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Learning in Geographically Dispersed Cross-Functional Development Teams

By: D. Sole and A. Edmondson

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Acquisition; Learning; Groups and Teams; Geographic Location; Organizational Structure

November 2023
Article

Knowledge About the Source of Emotion Predicts Emotion-Regulation Attempts, Strategies, and Perceived Emotion-Regulation Success

By: Yael Millgram, Matthew K. Nock, David D. Bailey and Amit Goldenberg

People’s ability to regulate emotions is crucial to healthy emotional functioning. One overlooked aspect in emotion-regulation research is that knowledge about the source of emotions can vary across situations and individuals, which could impact people’s ability to... View Details

Keywords: Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Well-being

1997
Working Paper

Changing Formal and Informal Structure to Enhance Organizational Knowledge

By: Tracy A. Thompson and Kathleen L. McGinn

August 2011
Article

The Jekyll and Hyde of Emotional Intelligence: Emotion-Regulation Knowledge Facilitates Prosocial and Interpersonally Deviant Behavior

By: Stéphane Côté, K. A. DeCelles, Julie M. McCarthy, Gerben A. Van Kleef and Ivona Hideg

Does emotional intelligence promote behavior that strictly benefits the greater good, or can it also advance interpersonal deviance? In the investigation reported here, we tested the possibility that a core facet of emotional intelligence—emotion-regulation... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Emotions

2012
Book

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those... View Details

Keywords: Change; Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Innovation and Invention; Management; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Research; Strategy; Complexity; Value

Purchase

1993
Chapter

Marketing Practice: Source of Problems and Insights for Advancing Marketing Knowledge

By: S. A. Greyser

Keywords: Marketing; Practice; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Problems and Challenges

2009
Working Paper

Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration

By: Mark Mortensen and T. B. Neeley

While scholars contend that firsthand experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Globalized Firms and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Trust