Aimee A. Kaneمشاهده پروفایل
دانشیار
Dr. Aimee A. Kane holds the Donahue Chair in Management and serves as an Associate Professor of Management at the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business, Duquesne University. Her interdisciplinary research examines group and team processes, with recent work exploring how AI influences collaboration. She teaches courses on management, organizational behavior, and leadership at undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. Dr. Kane earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Organizational Behavior and Theory from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and a B.A. in Spanish from Duke University. Her educational background reflects her interdisciplinary approach to organizational studies. Her research focuses on identifying processes that enable those separated by boundaries (social, informational, technological) to collaborate effectively. She employs various methodologies including small group experiments, automated text analysis, social network analysis, questionnaires, and interviews. Recent work explores how AI influences collaboration and decision-making in teams, with publications extending into 2025. Her research spans knowledge transfer, team receptivity to newcomers, boundary spanning, and language processes in groups. Dr. Kane's recent publications demonstrate a focus on AI collaboration, emotional contagion in online environments, and language analysis in group settings. Her work shows consistent progression in methodology sophistication and interdisciplinary integration across psychology, computer science, and organizational behavior. Most Valuable Paper (MVP) Co-Winner, Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 2023 Best Article Award, Small Group Research, 2019 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, 2023 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2022-2023 William and Helen Lyons Faculty Fellowship in Management, 2022 Harry W. Witt Faculty Fellowship in Management, 2018-2021 Dr. Kane serves as an Associate Editor at Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice and on editorial boards of Academy of Management Discoveries and Small Group Research. At Duquesne University, she serves on the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and previously served as an Assembly Member from 2020-2024. She played a key role in university initiatives including the COVID Health and Safety Task Force responsible for the COVID-19 Dashboard and served for 9 years on the Institutional Review Board (IRB), receiving the Eugene P. Beard Outstanding Service Award in 2021. Dr. Kane leads research on knowledge transfer, computer-supported collaboration, team receptivity to newcomers, boundary spanning, and language & group processes. Her work has been supported by grants from the Army Research Office, National Science Foundation, and the A.J. and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust. She has developed teaching materials including the case study 'Stranded in the Nyiri Desert' and conducted webinars on remote collaboration during the pandemic.
