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F. (Fernando) Olivera
Associate Professor
Fernando Olivera is
an Associate Professor in Organizational
Behavior at the Richard Ivey
School of Business. He joined the
Ivey Faculty in 1998. He earned a Ph.D. and M.S.
in Industrial Administration from the Graduate
School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie
Mellon University and a B.S. in Electronics
Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico y de
Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.
Olivera's
primary research interests are in the areas of
organizational memory, group and individual
learning, and the impact of communication
technology on group work. His work has been
published in the Academy
of Management Review, Small Group Research,
the Journal of Management
Studies, the Research on Managing Groups and
Teams book series, and other books and
conference proceedings. He co-edited the volume
Organizational Learning and Knowledge
Management: New Directions. He has presented his
work at various academic conferences, including
the Academy of Management
Annual Meetings, the Society of
Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
and the Institute for Operations Research and
the Management Sciences. He is a member of the
editorial review board of the Journal of
Organizational Behavior.
Professor
Olivera teaches courses in Organizational
Behavior and Interpersonal Negotiations in
Ivey's MBA, EMBA and
Ph.D. programs.
PROGRAM
TEACHING
Interpersonal Negotiations
(MBA Elective)
Organizational
Behavior Special Fields II:
Group Behavior and Cross Level Research (Ph.D.
Course)
RESEARCH
ACTIVITIES
Errors and Error Reporting
Organizational Memory and Forgetting
Group-to-Individual Transfer
of Learning
Effects of Technology on Group Processes
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
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Olivera, F., Goodman, P.
S., and Tan, S. L., (2008).
“Contribution behaviors in distributed
environments,” Management Information
Systems Quarterly, 32(1), 23-42.
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Zhao, B. & Olivera, F.
(2006). Error Reporting in
Organizations. Academy of Management
Review, 31, 1012-1030.
- Olivera,
F., & Straus, S. G. (2004).
Group-to-individual transfer of learning:
Cognitive and social factors, Small Group
Research, 445-465.
- Vince, R.,
Sutcliffe, K. M., & Olivera, F. (2002). "New
directions in organizational learning."
British Journal of Management, 13,
S1-S6.
- Olivera, F.
(2000). "Memory systems in organizations: An
empirical investigation of mechanisms for
knowledge collection, storage and access."
Journal of Management Studies, 37,
811-832.
- Straus, S.,
& Olivera, F. (2000) "Knowledge acquisition
in virtual teams." In M. A. Neale, E. A.
Mannix, & T. L. Griffith (Eds.), Research
on Managing Groups and Teams: Volume 3.
Technology (pp. 257-282), Greenwich, CT: JAI
Press.
- Olivera,
F., & Argote, L. (1999) "Organizational
Learning and CORE Processes in New Product
Development". In Thompson, L., Levine, J., &
Messick, D., (Eds.), Shared cognition in
organizations: The management of knowledge
(pp. 297-328). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
WORK IN PROGRESS AND CURRENT
RESEARCH PROJECTS
"Remembering organizational memory" with Andrea
Casey
"Learning with laptops:
Information technology and the transformation of
an MBA program" with Abhijit Gopal,
Teresa Marcon and Deb Compeau
"Multitasking behaviors in
groups" with Deb Compeau and Carlie Bell
"Emotional responses to errors" with Natalie
Zhao
EXPERIENCE
Teaching and
Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
Project Director, ITESM
Development Director, TELMEX
EXPERTISE
Knowledge
Management
Organizational Learning
Conflict Resolution
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