This research established collective nostalgia as a group-level emotion and ascertained the benefits it confers on the group. In Study 1, participants who reflected on a nostalgic event they had experienced together with ingroup members (collective nostalgia) evaluated the ingroup more positively and reported stronger intentions to approach (and not avoid) ingroup members than those who recalle...

While current GIS research has focused on technological issues of visualization and data organization, the emergence of new forms of collective authorship suggest we need new information frameworks and behaviors. How do individuals contribute place-based information to a digital commons? What are the authorship dynamics of such collective effort? For my research, I will use spatial data mining ...

Motivation – This paper presents collective processes analysis in command and control activities. Research approach – Our objective is to describe the collective activities during alert management situations using the EORCA method (Event Oriented Representation of Collaborative Activities). Findings/Design –Data analysis allows us to characterize different inter-individual processes: co-operati...

Abstract It has become quite common in environmental sustainability research to promote the influencing of so-called inner dimensions individuals as means address pressing problems such climate change, what we refer Inward Turn. We argue that conceptual foundations Turn, an extreme form methodological individualism, limit it significantly a strategy for addressing change and other socially rele...

Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression “telling our own stories” is used as a proxy for field-research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar’s personal involvement in a field. (By personal involvement in a field, I mean a scholar’s engagement in a set of mental activities that connect her t...