Publications [#277671] of Jonathon Cummings

Papers Published

1. Carton, AM; Cummings, JN; Evron, A, Striking a balance: The impact of balanced versus imbalanced subgroups on work team performance, Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, Aom 2011 (January, 2011) [doi]
   (last updated on 2023/06/01)

   Abstract:
   A longstanding controversy in research on work teams is whether teams are better off with a balanced configuration of subgroups in which there are no majorities and minorities, or an imbalanced configuration of subgroups in which majorities and minorities are both present. In a study of 326 work teams, we predict and find that the impact of majorities and minorities depends on the type of subgroup under consideration. Teams performed better when identity-based subgroups were imbalanced and knowledge-based subgroups were balanced.