Agile software development represents a major approach that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. Economy forces agile organizations to overcome geographical distances to benefit from accessing a larger resource pool and to reduce development costs. However, agile and distributed development approaches differ significantly in their key tenets. While agile methods mainly rely on info...

The idea of the creative individualist spawning innovations as a solitude effort is no longer realistic. Huge innovation projects, relying on project teams, have to be permanently conducted by organizations to assure their competitiveness. These projects often take place in distributed teams, making use of groupware to bridge temporal and geographical distances. Research in social psychology on...

This paper explores the management of expertise in offshore outsourcing projects. While the study of expertise development and coordination gained some attention in recent years, much of this research has been on co-located teams. Little is known about the way expertise is managed in distributed contexts and the challenges distributed teams face when attempting to develop and share expertise. T...

How does the geographic distance between potential acquiring and target firms affect acquisition strategy? Although popular discussions suggest that distance may be critically important to strategy, formal research on acquisition-based growth has paid little attention to spatial factors. This study examines how the distance between acquiring and target firms influences target selection, explori...

Users and network administrators need ways to filter email messages based primarily on the reputation of the sender. Unfortunately, conventional mechanisms for sender reputation—notably, IP blacklists—are cumbersome to maintain and evadable. This paper investigates ways to infer the reputation of an email sender based solely on network-level features, without looking at the contents of a messag...

How do organizations coordinate interdependent activities across geographic distance? We analyze 121 surveys of offshored processes to understand both the sources of difficulty in the remote delivery of services as well as how organizations overcome these difficulties. We find that contrary to conventional wisdom, system dependence of a process is a much greater hindrance to the offshoring serv...

This paper examines how information asymmetry affects cross-border strategic alliance formation by US firms over the period 2000–2008. We construct a measure, information costs, based on both geographical distance and the proportion of worldwide GDP the partner’s home country represents. Consistent with our expectations, we find an inverse association between information costs and cross-border ...

GWR, in nature, is a local modelling approach in that it models spatial heterogeneity by sequentially fitting a series of weighted and localised regression models, centred upon each fit location. The weights are inversely proportional to the geographic distance between the fit points and the observations. SVC, on the other hand, is a global modelling approach in that it regards the spatial hete...

Dating apps provide live interaction and user profiles with photos, self-descriptions, and information about the geographical distance between the user and potential mates. The literature on the influence of geographical separation information and an individual’s expectation of reciprocity on the desire to interact is limited. This study aims to bridge this gap in the literature by exploring tw...

This descriptive study of millions of US Facebook users documents "friending" and communication patterns, exploring parent-child relationships across a variety of life stages and gender combinations. Using statistical techniques on 400,000 posts and comments, we identify differences in how parents talk to their children (giving advice, affection, and reminders to call) compared to their other f...