INSEAD - Faculty & Research

Web Profile

Mark Mortensen

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Email :
Phone :
Fax :
Campus :

mark.mortensen@insead.edu
33 (0)1 60 98 30 71

Fontainebleau

Personal website

Extending Construal Level Theory to Distributed Groups: Understanding the Effects of Virtuality, April 2011 (Working Papers)
Multiple Team Membership: MTM in Multi-team Systems, Routledge, January 2012 (Chapters In Book)
Multiple Team Membership: A Theoretical Model of Its Effects on Productivity and Learning for Individuals and Teams, Academy of Management Review Vol. 36, N°3, pp 461-478, September 2011 (Journal Articles)
Go (Con)figure: The Role of Competing Subgroups in Geographically Dispersed Teams , Organization Science Vol. 21, N°1, pp 115-131, December 2010 (Journal Articles)
A Surprising Truth About Geographically Distributed Teams, MIT Sloan Management Review Vol. 49, N°4, pp 5-6, January 2008 (Journal Articles)
Conditions Enabling Effective Multiple Team Membership, January 2007 (Chapters In Book)
Understanding Conflict in Geographically Distributed Teams: An Empirical Investigation, Organization Science Vol. 16, N°3, pp 290-307, May 2005 (Journal Articles)
Conflict and Shared Identity in Geographically Distributed Teams, Vol. 12, N°3, pp 212-238, January 2001 (Journal Articles)

Mark Mortensen is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD.

Professor Mortensen studies the changing form of organizational collaboration. In his research he focuses on two increasingly prevalent ways of organizing that do not fit traditional models of team dynamics: globally distributed (virtual) and project-based work. In distributed contexts, he has investigated the nature of conflict and its relationship to identity, context, and communication; the impact of dispersion structure – in the form of balance, imbalance, and isolation – on collaboration dynamics; and the effects of first-hand experience – gained through site visits and expatriate assignments – on trust. In project-based work he has examined the effects of working in multiple, partially-overlapping, fluidly-shifting projects on collaboration dynamics and has proposed a fundamentally new model of collaboration. Professor Mortensen's research has been recognized in the academic community through awards including: 2004 William H. Newman award, 2004 OB Division Best Dissertation-Based Paper award, and 2001 Runner-up OCIS Division Best Paper award from the Academy of Management. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Organization Science, Management Science, the Academy of Management Review, and the International Journal of Conflict Management; in multiple edited volumes; in practitioner journals such as the Sloan Management Review and IESE Insight; and in media outlets including the Economist, The Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail.

Professor Mortensen teaches Organisational Behaviour II in the MBA program at INSEAD and in multiple EMBA programs. Prior to joining INSEAD, he was on the faculty at the MIT-Sloan School of Management for six years and before that he was on the faculty at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Professor Mortensen holds a PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, as well as an M.S. from Stanford University, and a B.A. from Colby College both in Computer Science.