Yi-an Deng, a student in the Master of Finance (MF) program, Class of 2024 at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), recently had his co-authored paper “Time the Surge: Theorizing and Examining Team Pacing in Multiple-Membership Contexts” published online in the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), a premier international journal in the field of management.
The research explores how multiple team memberships influence team pacing. Drawing on a large-scale dataset comprising over 1.6 million entries of project activities involving 1,712 individuals across 415 team projects, the research finds that higher average multiple memberships among core members delay the timing of a project’s activity surge. This surge-delaying effect is mitigated, however, when team members share greater external project overlap. Furthermore, projects with longer time spans are less likely to experience a surge at all; for those that do, surge timing exhibits a curvilinear relationship with efficiency—projects with either a markedly early surge (in the initial phase) or a markedly late surge (in the final phase) demonstrate greater temporal procedural efficiency than those with an intermediate-phase surge. These findings offer novel theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence for team management in multi-project environments.
As the official journal of the Academy of Management, AMJ is one of the top academic journals in management scholarship and is included in both the UTD24 list (the 24 premier business journals compiled by the University of Texas at Dallas) and the FT50 list (the 50 leading business journals selected by the Financial Times). AMJ maintains exceptionally high standards for publication, requiring both strong theoretical and empirical contributions as well as significant practical implications for management.
The publication of this paper by a SAIF student in a top-tier international journal reflects SAIF’s robust academic strength.
