Academic Biography
Dr. Aimée A. Kane is an Associate Professor and the William and Helen Lyons Faculty Fellow in Management at Duquesne University’s Palumbo-Donahue School of Business.
Dr. Kane is an expert on group processes. She examines what enables people separated by social distinctions as well as technological and organizational boundaries to come together, interrelate, learn from one another and collaborate effectively. Her research draws on and contributes to literatures in management, psychology, communications, and computer sciences, while employing various methodologies, including small group experiments, constructivist grounded theory, and automated text analysis. Dr. Kane’s interdisciplinary, multi-method research has been published in key journals (e.g., Annals of the Academy of Management, Computers in Human Behavior, Organization Science, Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Small Groups Research), authoritative handbooks (e.g., Handbook of Language Analysis in Psychology, Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning, The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Teamworking and Collaborative Processes), and conference proceedings (e.g., CHI, HFES).
Her research has received external funding and recognition. In 2024, the editorial board of Group Dynamics recognized Using linguistic inquiry and word count software to analyze group interaction language data (with Lyn van Swol) as a co-winner of the 2023 Most Valuable Paper award. Another related paper with Lyn van Swol, Language and group processes: An integrative, interdisciplinary review , was awarded the 2019 Best Article Award by the editors of Small Group Research. In 2018, the Academy of Management identified "Am I still one of them?”: Bicultural immigrant managers navigating social identity threats when spanning global boundaries (with Natalia Levina) as a finalist for the International Human Resource Management Scholarly Research Award. Internally, she was recognized with the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence in 2023 and 2017, the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business Outstanding Research Award in 2015 and 2014, and the Harry W. Witt Faculty Fellowship in Management from 2018 to 2021.
Dr. Kane teaches courses focused on collaboration and influence skills at the undergraduate, master's and executive levels. She received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in recognition of outstanding accomplishments as a passionate and dedicated educator during the 2022-2023 and 2020-2021 academic years.
She serves as an associate editor at the American Psychological Association journal, Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, and on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Discoveries , Organization Science, and Small Group Research. At Duquesne University, she serves on the Faculty Senate. Dr. Kane played a role in key university initiatives, including the COVID Health and Safety Task Force responsible for the COVID-19 Dashboard, served for 9 years on the Duquesne Institutional Review Board (IRB), and received the Eugene P. Beard Outstanding Service Award in December 2021.
Dr. Kane holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in organizational behavior and theory from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. from Duke University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is fluent in Spanish having spent time in Colombia, worked in Mexico, and studied in Spain.
Prior to joining Duquesne, she was an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University's Stern School of Business. She also previously worked for the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University as a research associate and teaching consultant. Dr. Kane became interested in organizational behavior when working as an investment banking analyst at Goldman, Sachs and Company in the mid-1990's.