Research & Publications

My research examines group and team processes, with recent work exploring how AI influences collaboration.  Much of my research is motivated by an overarching question: What enables those who are separated by boundaries (e.g., social distinctions, differential knowledge, physical and temporal distance) to come together, learn from one another, and collaborate effectively?  

Areas of Interest & Selected Publications (click on the blue button for an overview of each area)

Full Publication List (see also Google Scholar Citations        ORCID Page) 

Kane, A.A. & Emich, K. J. (2025) The value of small samples to groups and teams research: Accumulating knowledge across philosophies of science. Group and Organization Management 50(5–6), 1703–1735.  https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011241282703 . First published online September 14, 2024. 

Paletz, S. B. F., Kane, A. A., Diep, M., Nelson, T. M., Porter, A., & Vahlkamp, S. H. (2025). Human-Agent Teaming on Intelligence Tasks (HATIT): A Testbed for Evaluating AI in Intelligence Analysis. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 62(1), 483–494. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1272 

Kane, A. A., Paletz, S. B. F., Diep, M., Hajkowski, A., Porter, A. A. (2025). Virtual collaborative analysis: Effects of two AI summarizers. Small Group Research, 56(5), 821-863. https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964251361563. 

Craciun, G, Kane, A., Pike, J. (2025). Unpacking Digital Dashboards’ Influence on Preventive Health Behavior. Healthcare, 13(11), 1279. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13111279 

Kane, A.A., Paletz, S.B.F., Vahlkamp, S.H., Nelson, T., Porter, A., Diep, M. & Carraway, M. (2023) Intelligence analysis shift work: Sensemaking processes, tensions and takeaways. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 67(1), 1-6.  https://doi.org/10.1177/21695067231192569 

Kane, A. A., van Swol, L. M (2023). Using linguistic inquiry and word count software to analyze group interaction language data. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice. 27(3), 188–201. https://doi.org/10.1037/gdn0000195  Co-Winner of the 2023 Group Dynamics Most Valuable Paper Award

Kane, A. A., van Swol, L. M., & Sarmiento- Lawrence, I. G. (2023) Emotional contagion in online groups as a function of valence and status, 139. Computers in Human Behavior.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107543 

Kane, A. A. & van Swol, L.M. (2022). Harnessing a language analysis perspective to uncover emergent group processes. In M. Dehghani & R.L. Boyd (Eds). Handbook of Language Analysis in Psychology. (125 - 140). New York, N.Y.: Guilford Press.

Kane, A. A. & Rink, F. R. (2020) Personnel movement as a mechanism for learning in organizations and teams.  In. L. Argote & J. M. Levine (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning. (355 - 364). New York, N.Y: Oxford University Press. Online publication . doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190263362.013.20 

van Swol, L. M., & Kane, A. A. (2019). Language and group processes: An integrative, interdisciplinary review. Small Group Research, 2019 Annual Review Issue, 50, 3-38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496418785019. Winner of the 2018-2019 Best Article in Small Group Research Award

Kane, A. A., Kiesler, S., & Kang, R. (2018). Inaccuracy blindness in collaboration persists, even with an evaluation prompt. CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-9. doi: 10.1145/3173574.3174068

Kane, A. A. & Levina, N. (2017). “Am I still one of them?”: Bicultural immigrant managers navigating social identity threats when spanning global boundaries. Journal of Management Studies, 54, 540-577. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12259. This article appears in the Special Issue: Boundary Spanning in Global Organizations edited by A. Schotter, R. Mudambi, Y. Doz, & A. Guar. Finalist for the 2018 International Human Resource Management Scholarly Research Award, Human Resources Division, Academy of Management.

Rink, F., Kane, A. A., Ellemers, N., & van der Vegt, G. S. (2017). Change in organizational work teams. In E. Salas, R. Rico, & J. Passmore (Eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Teamworking and Collaborative Processes (pp. 177 - 194) Somerset, NY: Wiley-Blackwell.

Kane, A. A., & Rink, F. (2016). When and how groups utilize dissenting newcomer knowledge: Newcomers’ future prospects condition the effect of language-based identity strategies. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Special issue: Deviance in Groups: Current Perspectives on Enduring Questions edited by J. M. Levine & J. M. Marques. 19(5): 591-607 https://doi.org/ 10.1177/1368430216638534

Kane, A. A. & Rink, F. (2015). Team Newcomers. Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Ed. Ricky Griffin. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/ 10.1093/OBO/97801998467400050

Kane, A. A., & Rink, F. (2015). How newcomers influence group utilization of their knowledge: Integrating versus differentiating strategies. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice,19, 91 - 105. https://doi.org/10.1037/gdn0000024

Dokko, G., Kane, A. A., Tortoriello, M. (2014) One of us or one of my friends: How social identity and tie strength shape the creative generativity of boundary-spanning ties. Organization Studies, 35, 707-726.https:// doi.org/ 10.1177/0170840613508397.

Kang, R., Kane, A. A., & Kiesler, S. (2014). Teammate inaccuracy blindness: When information sharing tools hinder collaborative analysis. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW ‘14). NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/ 10.1145/2531602.2531681

Rink, F. & Kane, A.A. (2014) Conflict and change in teams: The innovative newcomer challenge. In O.B. Ayoko, N.M. Ashkanasy, & K.A. Jehn (Eds.) Handbook of Conflict Management Research (pp. 205 - 220). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Edgar.

Rink, F., Kane, A. A., Ellemers, N., & van der Vegt, G. S. (2013) Team receptivity to newcomers: Five decades of evidence and future research themes. The Academy of Management Annals, 7:1, 245-291. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/19416250.2013.766405

Kane, A. A. & Steele, A. L. (2012) Taking actions to deal with climate change risks and opportunities: Developing strong superordinate identities within corporations to promote knowledge transfer and creation. In J.A.F. Stoner and C. Wankel (Eds.) Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences: Leadership for Global Sustainability (pp. 207-225). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Salazar, M. R., Lant, T. K., & Kane, A. A. (2011). To join or not to join: An investigation of individual facilitators and inhibitors of medical faculty participation in interdisciplinary research teams. Clinical and Translational Science, 4(4), 274-278. https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1752-8062.2011.00321.x

Kane, A. A. & Rink, F. (2011) Newcomers as active agents: Team receptivity to integrating vs. differentiating identity strategies. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (Meeting Abstract Supplement), 1-6. https://doi.org/ 10.5465/AMBPP.2011.65869733

Kane, A. A. (2010). Unlocking knowledge transfer potential: Knowledge demonstrability and superordinate social identity. Organization Science, 21(3), 643-660. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1090.0469

Levina, N. & Kane, A.A. (2009) I am not one of them anymore: Onshore immigrant managers on offshored software development projects. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (Meeting Abstract Supplement), 1-6.  https://doi.org/ 10.5465/AMBPP.2009.44270100 (Nominee for the Carolyn Dexter Award from the OCIS Division of the Academy of Management)

Argote, L. & Kane, A.A. (2009) Superordinate identity and knowledge creation and transfer in organizations. In N.J Foss and S. Michailova (Eds.) Knowledge Governance: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (pp. 166-190). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Levina, N. & Kane, A.A. (2009) Immigrant Managers as Boundary Spanners on Offshored Software Development Projects: Partners or Bosses? Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC’09), 978-1-60558-198-9.  https://doi.org/ 10.1145/1499224.1499236 (Winner of best paper award).

Kane, A.A., Argote, L., & Levine, J.M. (2005) Knowledge transfer between groups via personnel rotation: Effects of social identity and knowledge quality. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 96, 56-71.  https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.obhdp.2004.09.002

Argote, L. & Kane, A.A. (2003) Learning from direct and indirect experience in organizations: The effects of experience content, timing, and distribution. In P. Paulus and B. Nijstad (Eds.) Group Creativity: Innovation through Collaboration (pp. 277-303). New York: Oxford University Press.

Grants

Army Research Office. Human-Agent Teaming on Intelligence Tasks (Co-Principal Investigator sub-award passed through the University of Maryland via principal investigator (PI). 2022-2024.

Army Research Office. Human-Agent Teaming on Intelligence Tasks (Consultant and intellectual contributor working with University of Maryland via principal investigator Dr. Susannah Paletz and co-PI Dr. Adam Porter). 2020-2022.

A.J. and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust, Team Receptivity to Newcomers. (Principal Investigator). 2014 – 2015.

National Science Foundation, Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems. Sharing insights across multiple virtual organizations. (sub-award passed through Carnegie Mellon University via principal investigator, Dr. Sara Kiesler, Carnegie Mellon University) 2012-2014.

National Science Foundation, Decision Risk and Management Science Program. Social Identity and Knowledge Transfer. (Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Linda Argote) 2003-2006.

Editorial Work

• Associate Editor, Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice (2022 - present)

• Editorial Board, Academy of Management Discoveries (2020 - present)

• Editorial Board, Small Group Research (2022 - present)

• Editorial Board, Organization Science (2009 - 2025)

• Editorial Board, Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice (2017 - 2022)

• Editorial Board, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2006 - 2007)

Updated June 2025