Sloan School of Management: Recent submissions
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The Shift from Centralized to Peer-to-Peer Communication in an Online Community: Participants as a Useful Aspect of Genre Analysis
(Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-01-01)In this paper we analyzed an online community based on a mailing list that was created as an internal marketing tool for launching a new network service. We focused on the change in communication over time among dispersed ... -
Friends and Enemies Within: The Roles of Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams
(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
(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, ...
