Academic Publications

• Gerald C. Kane, Anh Phillips, Jonathan Copulsky, and Garth Andrus, “How Digital Leadership Is(n’t) Different.”  MIT-Sloan Management Review. Spring 2019.

• Shamel Addas, Alain Pinsonneault, and Gerald C. Kane “Converting Email from Drain to Gain.” MIT-Sloan Management Review.  Summer 2018.

• Burcu Bulgurcu, Witske van Osch, and Gerald C. Kane. “The Rise of the Promoters: User Classes and Their Contribution in Enterprise Social Media.”  Journal of Management Information Systems. (35:2) July 2018, pp. 610-646.

• Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Arun Sundararajan, and Gerald C. Kane. “The Power of Product Recommendation Networks.” MIT-Sloan Management Review. Fall 2017,

• Ksenia Koroleva and Gerald C. Kane. “Relational affordances of information processing on Facebook” Information & Management. (54:5) July 2017, Pages 560-572.

• Fredrik Svahn, Lars Mathiassen, Rikard Lindgren, and Gerald C. Kane. “Mastering the Digital Innovation Challenge.”  MIT-Sloan Management Review.  Spring 2017.

• Gerald C. Kane. “The Evolutionary Implications of Social Media for Organizational Knowledge Management.” Information and Organization. (27:1) March 2017, Pp. 37–46.

• Gerald C. Kane, Douglas Palmer, Anh Nguyen-Phillips, and David Kiron. “Winning the Digital War for Talent.” MIT-Sloan Management Review. Winter 2016.

• Gerald C. Kane and Sam Ransbotham. “Content as Community Regulator: The Recursive Relationship Between Consumption and Contribution in Open Collaboration Communities.” Organization Science (27:5), September-October 2016, pp. 1258–1274.

• Gerald C. Kane and Sam Ransbotham. “Content and Collaboration: An Affiliation Network Approach to Information Quality in Online Peer Production Communities.” Information Systems Research (27:2), June 2016, pp. 424–439.

• Joshua Marineau, Guiseppe (Joe) Labianca, and Gerald C. Kane. “Direct and Indirect Negative Ties and Individual Performance Social Networks.” Social Networks (44), January 2016, pp. 238–252.

• Maurice Kuegler, Stefan Smolnik, and Gerald C. Kane. “What’s in IT for employees? Understanding the relationship between use and performance in enterprise social software.” Journal of Strategic Information Systems (24:2), June 2015, pp. 90–112.

• Gerald C. Kane, Douglas Palmer, Anh Nguyen-Phillips, and David Kiron. “Is Your Business Ready for A Digital Future?” MIT-Sloan Management Review (56:4), Summer 2015.

• Gerald C. Kane. “Enterprise Social Media: Current Capabilities and Future Considerations.” MIS Quarterly Executive (14:1), March 2015, pp. 1–16.
  Gerald C. Kane, Jeremiah Johnson, Ann Majchrzak.  "Emergent Lifecycle: The Tension Between Knowledge Change And Knowledge Retention In Open Online Co-production Communities."  Forthcoming. Management Science. 

• Gerald C. Kane, Doug Palmer, Anh Nguyen Phillips, David Kiron.  "Finding the Value in Social Business."  MIT-Sloan Management Review. (55:3) March 2014.  pp.81-88.

• Gerald C. Kane, Maryam Alavi, Guiseppe (Joe) Labianca, and Stephen P. Borgatti, "What's Different about Social Media Networks?  A Framework and Research Agenda.  MIS Quarterly. (38:1) March 2014.  pp. 274-304

• Ann Majchrzak, Samer Faraj, Gerald C. Kane, and Bijan Azad, "The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Knowledge Affordances."  Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (19:1) October 2013.  pp. 38-55.

• Sam Ransbotham, Gerald C. Kane, and Nicholas Lurie. "Network Characteristics and the Value of Collaborative User-Generated Content."  Marketing Science (Vol. 31:3) May–June 2012, pp. 387–405.

• Gerald C. Kane and Stephen P. Borgatti. “Centrality-IS Proficiency Alignment and Workgroup Performance.”  MIS Quarterly (35:4). December 2011, pp.1063-1078.    

• Sam Ransbotham and Gerald C. Kane. “Membership Turnover and Collaboration Success in Online Communities:  Explaining  Rise and Falls from Grace in Wikipedia.”  MIS Quarterly. (35:3). September 2011, pp. 613-627.

• Gerald C. Kane and Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca. “IS Avoidance in Healthcare Groups: A Multilevel Investigation.” Information Systems Research.  Forthcoming, September 2011.

• Gerald C. Kane. “A Multimethod Study of Wiki-based Collaboration.” ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems. (2:1). March 2011, Article 4.

• Gerald C. Kane, Ann Majchrzak, and Blake Ives. “Enterprise and Industry Applications of Web 2.0” MISQ Executive, December 2010.

• Gerald C. Kane, Robert G. Fichman, John Gallaugher, and John Glaser. “Community Relations 2.0: With the rise of real-time social media, the rules about community outreach have changed.” Harvard Business Review (87:11).  November 2009, pp. 45-50.

• Gerald C. Kane and Robert G. Fichman. “The Shoemaker’s Children: Using Wikis to Improve IS Research, Teaching, and Publication.” MIS Quarterly (33:1). March 2009, pp. 1-22.

• Veda C. Storey, Gerald C. Kane, and Kathy Stewart Schwaig. “The Quality of Online Privacy Policies:  A Resource-Dependency Perspective.” Journal of Database Management (20:1). Winter 2009, pp. 19-37.

• Gerald C. Kane and Maryam Alavi. “Casting the Net: A Multimodal Network Perspective on User-System Interactions,” Information Systems Research (19:3). September 2008, pp. 253-272.  Lead Article. Runner-up for Best Paper in ISR for 2008.

• Maryam Alavi and Gerald C. Kane. “Social Networks and Information Technology: Evolution and New Frontiers,” in Knowledge Management: An Evolutionary View.  Dorothy Leidner and Irma Becerra-Fernandez, eds. AMIS Research Monograph. 2008. Gerald C. Kane and Maryam Alavi. “Information Technology and Organizational Learning: An Investigation of Exploitation and Exploration Processes,” Organization Science (18:5). September-October 2007, pp. 786-812.

• Kathy Stewart-Schwaig, Gerald C. Kane, and Veda Storey. “Compliance to the Fair Information Practices: How are the Fortune 500 Handling On-line Privacy Disclosures?” Information & Management 43(7). October 2006, pp.805-820.