Deborah Ancona

8.8k citations

36 papers · 5.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 19

Impact in

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management top 0.5%
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Management and Organizational Studies
Strategy and Management top 0.5%
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Business Strategy and Innovation

Papers in

Communication 6
- Knowledge Management and Sharing 6
Management Information Systems 7
- Big Data and Business Intelligence 4
- Information Technology Governance and Strategy 4

Co-authors: David F. Caldwell Leslie A. Perlow Gerardo A. Okhuysen Michael L. Tushman Barbara Lawrence Paul S. Goodman David Caldwell Henrik Bresman
Journals: Academy of Management Review (5 papers)Research-Technology Management (3 papers)IEEE Engineering Management Review (2 papers)Academy of Management Journal (2 papers)Administrative Science Quarterly (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Netherlands Australia

In The Last Decade

Deborah Ancona

35 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Time: A New Research Lens 2001 · 501 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2001 Academy of Management Review
1992 Administrative Science Quarterly
1992 Organization Science

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All Works

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1	Shifting Team Research after COVID‐19:Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change Journal of Management Studies ·Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman, Mark Mortensen	2020	10
2	Outward Bound: Strategies for Team Survival in the Organization DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Deborah Ancona	2015	8
3	Management issues in new product teams in high technology companies DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Deborah Ancona, David F. Caldwell	2011	2
4	In praise of the incomplete leader IEEE Engineering Management Review ·Deborah Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Peter M. Senge	2009	94
5	Improving the Performance of New Product Teams: How a Team Manages Its Boundaries Can Affect Its Performance and, in Turn, the Duration of the Product Development Cycle Research-Technology Management ·Deborah Ancona, David Caldwell	2007	9
6	Elogio del líder incompleto Harvard business review ·Deborah Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Peter M. Senge	2007	1
7	Improving the Performance of New Product Teams IEEE Engineering Management Review ·Deborah Ancona, David Caldwell	2007	27
8	X-Teams: How To Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, And Succeed Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman	2007	115
9	Improving the Performance of New Product Teams Research-Technology Management ·Deborah Ancona, David Caldwell	2007	9
10	The Functional Perspective as a Lens for Understanding Groups Small Group Research ·Gwen M. Wittenbaum, Andrea B. Hollingshead, Paul B. Paulus, Randy Y. Hirokawa, Deborah Ancona, Randall S. Peterson, Karen A. Jehn, Huirem Diana Devi	2004	6
11	The Comparative Advantage of X-Teams Hispana ·Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman, E Apostolaki	2002	77
12	Time-out: Taking Time to Integrate Temporal Research Optics Letters ·Deborah Ancona, Lokanath Nayak, Leslie A. Perlow	2001	2
13	Introduction Academy of Management Review ·Paul S. Goodman, Barbara Lawrence, Deborah Ancona, Michael L. Tushman	2001	50
14	Time: A New Research Lens Academy of Management Review ·Deborah Ancona, Paul S. Goodman, Barbara Lawrence, Michael L. Tushman Hit paper breakdown →	2001	501
15	Time: A New Research Lens Academy of Management Review ·Deborah Ancona, Paul S. Goodman, Barbara Lawrence, Michael L. Tushman	2001	263
16	Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Deborah Ancona	1998	51
17	The Group and What Happens on the Way to “Yes” Negotiation Journal ·Deborah Ancona, Ray Friedman, MARINA GABRIELA MAGALHÃES BARBOSA MARTA	1991	25
18	Strategies for Learning: Small-Group Activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish Industry. Administrative Science Quarterly ·Deborah Ancona, Robert E. Cole	1991	6
19	Outward Bound: Strategic for Team Survival in an Organization Academy of Management Journal ·Deborah Ancona	1990	92
20	Beyond boundary spanning: Managing external dependence in product development teams The Journal of High Technology Management Research ·Deborah Ancona, David Caldwell	1990	147

About Deborah Ancona

Deborah Ancona is a scholar working on Communication, Management Information Systems, Social Psychology, Strategy and Management and Management Science and Operations Research, having authored 36 papers that have together received 5.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Team Dynamics and Performance (14 papers), Knowledge Management and Sharing (6 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (6 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (5 papers), Big Data and Business Intelligence (4 papers), Information Technology Governance and Strategy (4 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (4 papers) and Collaboration in agile enterprises (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (1.7k citations), Strategy and Management (2.4k citations), Communication (1.1k citations), Management of Technology and Innovation (703 citations) and Social Psychology (1.8k citations). Deborah Ancona has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. Frequent co-authors include David F. Caldwell, Leslie A. Perlow, Gerardo A. Okhuysen, Michael L. Tushman, Barbara Lawrence, Paul S. Goodman, David Caldwell, Henrik Bresman, Wanda J. Orlikowski and Thomas W. Malone. Their work appears in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Research-Technology Management, IEEE Engineering Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly.

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