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Professor Mortensen publishes regularly in top-tier academic publications as well as in both management and popular press

Academic Publications

  • Backmann, J., Wimmer, J., Mortensen, M., Hoegl, M., Hartmann, S. Peus, C. (provisionally accepted) A resource-based view on individual absorption in the context of multiple team memberships. Organization Science

  • Ancona, D. Bresman, H. Mortensen, M. (2020) Shifting team research after COVID-19: Evolutionary and revolutionary change. Journal of Management Studies

  • Mortensen, M., Haas, M. (2018) Rethinking teams: From bounded membership to dynamic participation. Organization Science

    • An earlier version of this paper was a Best Paper Award Finalist at the 2013 INGRoup conference

  • Mortensen, M. (2014) Constructing the team: Why do teams disagree on their boundaries and what does it mean? Organization Science, 25(3), 909-931.

    • A version of this paper won the AoM-wide Newman, and the OB-Area Awards for the Best Dissertation-Based Paper at the 2004 AoM conference

  • Caya, O., Mortensen, M., Pinsonneault, A. (2013) Virtual teams demystified: An integrative framework for understanding virtual teams; International Journal of E-Collaboration, 9(2), 1-33.

    • Selected by the editorial board as the best article published in 2013.

  • Bertolotti, F., Mattarelli, E., Mortensen, M., O’Leary, M., & Incerti, V. (2013) How many teams should we manage at once? The effect of Multiple Team Membership, collaborative technologies, and polychronicity on team performance. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems.

  • Mortensen, M. & Neeley, T. B. (2012) Reflected knowledge and trust in global collaboration, Management Science, 58(12), 2207–2224.

  • Wilson, J. M., Crisp, C. B., Mortensen, M. (2012) Extending construal level theory to distributed groups: Understanding the effects of virtuality, Organization Science, 24(2) 629-644.

  • Wageman, R., Gardner, H., Mortensen, M. (2012) The changing ecology of teams: New directions for teams research, Journal of Organizational Behavior, 33(3), 15-25. 1

  • Wageman, R., Gardner, H., Mortensen, M. (2012) Teams have changed: Catching up to the future; Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 5(1), 48-52.

  • O’Leary, M., Mortensen, M., & Woolley, A. W. (2011) Multiple team membership: A theoretical model of its effects on productivity and learning for individuals and teams, Academy of Management Review, 36(3), 461-478.

  • O’Leary, M., Woolley, A. W., & Mortensen, M.[1] (2011) Multiple team membership: MTM in multi-team systems, In S. Zaccaro, M. Marks, and L. De Church (Eds.), Multi-Team Systems: An Organization Form for Dynamic and Complex Environments. Psychology Press.

  • O’Leary, M. & Mortensen, M. (2010) Go (con)figure: The role of competing subgroups in geographically dispersed teams, Organization Science, 21(1), 115-131.1

  • Mortensen, M., Woolley, A. W., & O'Leary, M. B. 1 (2007). Conditions enabling effective Multiple team membership. In K. Crowston & S. Sieber & E. Wynn (Eds.), Virtuality and Virtualization, Vol. 236: 215-228. Boston: Springer.

  • Hinds, P. and Mortensen, M. (2005) Understanding conflict in geographically distributed teams: An empirical investigation, Organization Science, 16(3), 290-310.

    • A version of this paper was the runner up for the OCIS-Division Best Paper Award 2001 AoM Conference

  • Mortensen, M. (2004). Antecedents and consequences of team boundary disagreement. Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings.

  • Mortensen, M. & Hinds, P. (2002). Fuzzy teams: Boundary disagreement in distributed and collocated teams. In P. Hinds, & S. Kiesler (Eds.), Distributed Work. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Mortensen, M., & Hinds, P. (2001). Conflict and shared identity in geographically distributed teams. International Journal of Conflict Management, 12(3), 212-238.

  • Mortensen, M., & Hinds, P. (2001). Conflict and shared identity in geographically distributed teams. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.


[1] Authors contributed equally

Management Press - Print

  • Toxicity in hybrid work environments, HBR Guide to Navigating the Toxic Workplace (coming 2024) 
  • How Opinions About Hybrid Work differ Around the GlobeHBR (Jul 2023)
  • Why Hybrid Work Can Become ToxicHBR (Jul 2023)
  • Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition, Harvard Business Review 2023
    [Reprinted in special feature “What Companies Get Wrong About Talent Management”]
  • What Psychological Safety Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace, Harvard Business Review 2021
    [Selected by editors for reprints in special issue on the future of work, emotional intelligence issue, and HBR guide to managing virtual work]
  • Making the Hybrid Workplace Fair, Harvard Business Review 2021
    [Selected by editors for special issue on the future of work]
  • El Desafío de la equidad en nuestro futuro híbrido, 2021
    Harvard Deusto Business Review
  • Are Your Team Members Lonely2020
    MIT-Sloan Management Review
  • The overcommitted organization, Harvard Business Review, 95(5), 58-65. 2017
    • Republished in HBR’s 10 must reads on Managing People volume 2                                    
      (selected by HBR editors as one of top 10 most influential articles on managing people)
    • Republished in HBR’s 10 must reads 2019                                                                           
      (selected by HBR editors as one of top 10 most influential articles of the year)
    • Cover story of the print edition
  • The secrets of great teamwork, Harvard Business Review, 94(6), 70-76. 2016
  • Working together effectively before it all goes downhill, IESE Insight, 21(1), 115-131. 2010
  • A surprising truth about geographically dispersed teams,
    MIT-Sloan Management Review, 49(4), 5-6. 2008

Management Press - Digital

  • Tension is rising around remote work, HBR (Jul 2023)
  • A holistic approach to navigating the new workplace, INSEAD Knowledge (Jun 2023)
  • What’s behind the tech layoffs?, INSEAD Knowledge (Feb 2023)
  • To Craft a Better Employee Experience, Collect the Right Data, HBR (Nov 2022)
  • Navigating the New World of Work, INSEAD Knowledge (Nov 2022)
  • How to Show Compassion Without Compromising on Performance, INSEAD Knowledge (Sep 2022)
  • Has Hybridity Killed Teamwork?, INSEAD Knowledge (May 2022)
  • Do We Still Need Teams?, HBR (Apr 2022)
  • Managers are Trapped in a Performance-Compassion Dilemma, HBR (Apr 2022)
  • Leaders Don’t Have to Choose Between Compassion and Performance, HBR Digital (Feb 2022)
  • A Measured Approach to Making a Drastic Change, HBR (Nov 2021)
  • Three Steps to Optimising Your Firm’s Hybrid Work Strategy, INSEAD Knowledge (Sep 2021)
  • Figure out the right hybrid strategy for your company, HBR (Jun 2021)
  • Quand l'entreprise ne sait plus où donner de la tête, HBR France (May 2021)
  • What Psychological Safety Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace, HBR (Apr 2021)
  • Four Ways Today’s Teams Are Making Us Lonely, INSEAD Knowledge (Apr 2021)
  • Making the Hybrid Workplace Fair, HBR (Feb 2021)
  • WFH Is Corroding Our Trust in Each Other, HBR (Feb 2021)
  • Teams in evolution and revolution, INSEAD Knowledge (Jan 2021)
  • How to do performance reviews remotely, HBR (Jun 2020)
  • How to prepare your virtual team for the long haul, HBR (May 2020)
  • Trois defils de teletravail, HBR France (in French) (Apr 2020)
  • The three main challenges of remote working, INSEAD Knowledge (Mar 2020)
  • How to stay focused if you’re assigned to multiple projects at once, HBR (Nov 2017)
  • Collaborating well in large global teams, HBR (Jul 2017)
  • Resolve a Fight with a Remote Colleague, HBR (Nov 2015)
  • A First-Time Manager’s Guide to Leading Virtual Teams, HBR (Sep 2015)
  • When you have to coach remotely, HBR (Apr 2015)
  • Technology alone won’t solve our collaboration problems, HBR (Mar 2015)
  • How to manage remote direct reports, HBR (Feb 2015)
  • Managing a virtual team, HBR (Apr 2012)

Podcasts

Book Chapters

  • Leading teams of lawyers, in an increasingly global and virtual world, 2019
    In Gardner, H. and Normand-Hochman R. (Eds) Leadership for Lawyers: (2nd edition)
  • Leading teams of lawyers, in an increasingly global and virtual world, 2015
    In Gardner, H. and
    Normand-Hochman R. (Eds.) Leadership for Lawyers

Popular Press

  • Feeling lonely when working from home? You’re not alone. Here’s how to reconnect. ABC (Jun 2022)
  • Hybrid competence is the newest soft skill with an outsize impact on your career. Here's how you can work it into your résumé. Business Insider (May 2022)
  • Commentary: Why hybrid work may feel more exhausting than working from the office or home, Channel News Asia (Mar 2022)
  • How do you resolve conflict in the hybrid workplace, Quartz (Nov 2021)
  • Can guilt help bankers change for the better? Financial Times (Nov 2021)
  • Hybrid Work | The Belonging Imperative, TedXSydney Salon (Oct 2021)
  • How to ask your boss for a hybrid working setup, BBC (Aug 2021)
  • How to avoid the return of office cliques Financial Times (May 2021)
  • Culture in a Post-Pandemic Workplace, New York Fed Web Series on Culture (Jul 2021)
  • The Loneliness of the modern office team member, Financial Times (May 2021)
    • The Loneliness of the modern office team member, Irish Times (May 2021)
    • Commentary: Relationships in the office have become superficial, Channel News Asia (May 2021)
    • Four ways today’s teams are making us lonely, Business Times (May 2021)
  • Virtual, borderless teams, Quartz.com Field Guide (Sep 2020)
  • Working from home due to COVID-19 — is the honeymoon over?, This Working Life - Australian Broadcast Radio (Aug 2020)
  • The Workforce. Changed, Capco Webinar (Jul 2020)
  • Collaboration and Communication in the Covid-19 Era, Boating Industry Insider (May 2020) [podcast]
  • Collaboration and Communication in the Covid-19 Era, Boating Industry Insider (May 2020) [blog]
  • When WFH meets remote schooling, This Working Life - Australian Broadcast Radio (Apr 2020)
  • Fashion is working from home Business of Fashion (Mar 2020)
  • Work from home: what the research says on getting comfortable interacting online, mute button and all, The National (Apr 2020)
  • Analyst: Communication is most important tool in work-from-home setup, ANC News Mar 2020
  • Successful teams need two things: One is trust, Globe and Mail (Mar 2015)
  • Leadership: Pack your suitcase, catch a flight and meet the team, Financial Times (Feb 2015)
  • Teamwork doesn’t mean what it used to, Globe and Mail Report on Business (Oct 2014)
  • How teams are changing, Globe and Mail Report on Business (Oct 2013)
  • The team unbound: Unpacking the real implications of the shift to global, dynamic, and overlapping teams, In R. Wageman (Ed.), Team Effectiveness, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London, 2013
  • It’s official: business travel broadens the mind, Economist.com, (Jun 2009)
  • Why cutting business travel could be a false economy, CNN.com International (May 2009)
  • Profs: Keep those corporate road warriors flying, Boston Globe (May 2009)
  • Being part of the team, Montreal Gazette (Apr 2005)
  • Early bird gets the praise, Montreal Gazette (Sep 2004)
  • You’ve got soliloquy, Globe and Mail (Sep 2002)

Contact

Mark Mortensen
Associate Dean, Middle East Campus
Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Al Khatem Tower, ADGM Square - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

Phone: +971 506158710
Email: [email protected]

Assistant: Soumaya DEROUICHE
Phone: +971 56 433 1701
Email: [email protected]