Leslie DeChurch

About

Leslie DeChurch is an academic and expert in organizational leadership and teamwork, serving as a Professor of Communication Studies at the Northwestern University School of Communication. She holds courtesy appointments in Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management and in the Department of Psychology at the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Her research examines the leadership and teamwork that enable extraordinary success across various contexts, including the Italian Renaissance, space exploration, and human-AI partnerships. She leads the ATLAS lab: Advancing Teams, Leaders, and Systems, which conducts laboratory and online experiments, meta-analytic integrations, and field studies to understand core organizing processes of teams and leaders. DeChurch is also the Director of the immersive undergraduate program Leading a Renaissance, Then and Now, held annually in Florence, Italy. Her work has been funded by agencies such as the NSF, NIH, NASA, and the Army Research Office, and she has contributed to influential publications and national committees on teamwork and leadership issues. She holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology and is recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychology.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Mining
• Sociology
• Knowledge management
• Information Retrieval
• Machine Learning
• Econometrics
• Art
• Data science

Selected publications

• Leading teams in the digital age: Four perspectives on technology and what they mean for leading teams

  The Leadership Quarterly · 2020 · 334 citations

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• Social perception in Human-AI teams: Warmth and competence predict receptivity to AI teammates

  Computers in Human Behavior · 2023 · 132 citations

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• Patent Similarity Data and Innovation Metrics

  Journal of Empirical Legal Studies · 2020 · 55 citations

  We introduce and describe the Patent Similarity Dataset, comprising vector space model‐based similarity scores for U.S. utility patents. The dataset provides approximately 640 million pre‐calculated similarity scores, as well as the code and computed vectors required to calculate further pairwise similarities. In addition to the raw data, we introduce measures that leverage patent similarity to provide insight into innovation and intellectual property law issues of interest to both scholars and…

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• Teams in the Digital Workplace: Technology’s Role for Communication, Collaboration, and Performance

  Small Group Research · 2023-10-03 · 45 citations

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  This paper addresses the need for theoretical advancements in understanding team processes and the impact of technology on teams. Specifically, it examines the use of digital collaboration technologies by organizational teams and their effect on team communication and collaboration. Using the concept of affordances as a theoretical lens, the paper explores the potential relationships between technology affordances and essential team processes. It also provides an agenda for future research on so…

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• Leading teams over time through space: Computational experiments on leadership network archetypes

  The Leadership Quarterly · 2022 · 22 citations

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: SCC-SBE: Research Coordination Network on Leveraging Computational Social Science for Understanding Virtual Organizations

  NSF · $337k · 2013–2016

• Innovate Against Time: Drivers and Mechanisms of Knowledge Innovation Within and Across Organizations

  NSF · $499k · 2011–2014

• VOSS: Creating Functionally Collaborative Infrastructure in Virtual Organizations

  NSF · $400k · 2009–2011

Frequent coauthors

• Noshir Contractor

  60 shared

• Jessica Mesmer‐Magnus

  University of North Carolina Wilmington

  27 shared

• Dorothy R. Carter

  Michigan State University

  24 shared

• Alina Lungeanu

  Northeastern University

  17 shared

• Toshio Murase

  Waseda University

  13 shared

• Lindsay Larson

  Florida International University

  13 shared

• Raquel Asencio

  Block Engineering (United States)

  12 shared

• Stephen J. Zaccaro

  George Mason University

  12 shared

Labs

• ATLAS labPI

Awards & honors

• 2024 Sage Publishing Award for the best management history p…
• 2023 Sage Publishing Award for the best management history p…
• Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 2016
• Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), 2…
• Fellow of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psycho…

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