Motivations for social networking at work
Joan DiMicco, David R. Millen, et al.
ACM CSCW 2008
Geographically distributed teams often face challenges in coordination and collaboration, lowering their productivity. Understanding the relationship between team dispersion and productivity is critical for supporting such teams. Extensive prior research has studied these relations in lab settings or using qualitative measures. This paper extends prior work by contributing an empirical case study in a real-world organization, using quantitative measures. We studied 117 new research project teams from the same discipline within an industrial research lab for 6 months. During this time, all teams shared one goal: submitting research papers to the same target conference. We analyzed these teams' dispersion-related characteristics as well as team productivity. Interestingly, we found little statistical evidence that geographic and time differences relate to team productivity. However, organizational and functional distances are predictive of the productivity of the dispersed teams we studied. We discuss the open research questions these findings revealed and their implications for future research.
Joan DiMicco, David R. Millen, et al.
ACM CSCW 2008
Gang Wang, Fei Wang, et al.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Michael Muller, Anna Kantosalo, et al.
CHI 2024
Michael Muller, Heloisa Caroline de Souza Pereira Candello, et al.
ICCC 2023