Jonathon Cummings

Jonathon Cummings is Professor of Management and Organizations at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. After completing his dissertation and post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University, he spent three years at the MIT Sloan School of Management as an Assistant Professor, where he received an NSF Early Career Award for his research on innovation in geographically dispersed teams and networks. His subsequent research has focused on virtual teams in corporations as well as collaboration in science, and his publications have appeared in outlets across a number of fields, including Organizational Behavior, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Science Policy, and Psychology.

Jonathon Cummings is a Professor of Management at Duke University, specializing in Geographically Dispersed Teams, Scientific Collaboration, and Managerial Effectiveness. His research explores how teams function across spatial and temporal boundaries, focusing on coordination challenges, knowledge sharing, and performance outcomes. Cummings investigates the impact of structural diversity, subgroup dynamics, and communication technologies on collaborative success. His work highlights the role of prior experience in reducing collaboration barriers and the importance of time allocation in managing dispersed teams. He also examines the interplay between online and offline relationships in both academic and organizational settings.