Although organisations often implement team-based structures to improve performance, such restructuring does not automatically ameliorate poor performance. The study in this article explores the relationship between team members’ negative mood and team processes (social cohesion, workload sharing, team conflict) to determine if negative mood has a detrimental effect on team performance via team...

While past research has explored the effects of different targeted promotion strategies (e.g., temporal, geographical, crowdedness-based), it is yet to take into account effect social context group cohesiveness) on consumer responses such promotions. We develop a metric for measuring tie-strengths between individuals in co-located and compute holistic measure, cohesiveness, from longitudinal ph...

Conviviality is usually considered a positive concept however, as it becomes an instrument at the service of power relations, a darker side emerges. In this survey paper we raise the question: Which definition of conviviality can be used and operationalized for digital cities? We propose a two-fold definition of conviviality as (1) a condition for social interactions and (2) an instrument for t...

Israel stands at a crossroads, culturally, socially and environmentally. It is choosing to pursue the same car-based land use and transportation model which has failed to deliver social cohesion in Europe and the U.S.A. This paper identifies the present-day trends that are reshaping Israel’s physical space at the turn of the millennium. It then explores the impact of these transport trends on I...

Metronomes, cells, neurons, fireflies, and human beings all fall into synchrony with each other, given the opportunity. Synchrony between people appears to generate social cohesion by increasing liking and feelings of togetherness. But the function of dancing, chanting and singing is not just to produce warm, affiliative feelings, anthropologists have speculated, but also to improve group actio...

Past literature shows that workflows will be performed with greater efficiency and/or effectiveness if workflow teams have higher group cohesiveness. The major contribution of this work in progress is the creation and implementation of a formal generalized methodology that incorporates ideas from two diverse fields: social network theory and workflow modeling, and allows optimization of work gr...