Professor Darl Gurney Kolb

PhD, Cornell, MA, Colorado, and BSc, Illinois State

Professor

In: Graduate School of Management » Faculty of Business and Economics

Biography

Darl is a pioneering theorist on social and technical connectivity and the first Professor of Connectivity in the world. He has published articles on the states of connectivity and the metaphor of connectivity in Organization Studies and 'requisite connectivity' in Organizational Dynamics and is editing a Special Issue on 'Connectivity In and Around Organizations' in Organization Studies (due out in 2020). He is currently interested in metaphors for a digital age. Darl has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney and the University of Cambridge. He discusses the connects and disconnects of life on his blog, Connectivity Corner (drdarlkolb.blogspot.com).

As an award-winning teacher, Darl leads the "Managing People and Organisations" (BUSMGT 711) core course in the Masters of Management programme in the Graduate School of Management. He also serves as an Academic Facilitator for business growth and export programmes at the ICEHOUSE. He has co-authored and edited a popular book on business growth, called Changing Gears (Auckland University Press).

Special Interests:

Connectivity in and around organizations: I am generally interested in the ways that anywhere/anytime connectivity is changing our lives and our world.

Research | Current

Research Interests:

Guest Editing Organization Studies Special Issue on 'Connectivity In and Around Organizations.' Manuscripts due: 30 September 2018.

See the Sage website: http://journals.sagepub.com/page/oss/call-for-papers

Or, the pdf Call for Papers can be downloaded here: http://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/OSS/CFP_connectivity_in_and_around_organizations.pdf

Teaching | Current

Positions Held:

FromToInstitutionPosition Held

2007	2013	Dept. Management & Int'l Bus.	Assoc. Professor
2012	2012	University of Cambridge	Visiting Fellow
1997	2006	University of Auckland	Senior Lecturer
1992	1996	University of Auckland	Lecturer
1989	1991	Cornell University	Research Associate
1982	1988	Santa Fe Mountain Center	Project Director
1981	1982	Colorado Outward Bound School	Instructor

Teaching:

2013-present	BUSMGT 711	Managing People and Organisations

Postgraduate supervision

7 PhDs supervised to completion.

Seeking new PhD candidates of high quality who are interested in exploring our understanding of connectivity.

Distinctions/Honours

2012 Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
2010 Dean's Award for Teaching Collaboration
2005 Dean's Award for Excellence as Editor of the UABR
2004 Excellence Award - Distance Education Association of New Zealand
1998 MBA Teacher of the Year
1994 MBA Teacher of the Year
1994 University of Auckland Distinguished Teaching Award

Responsibilities

Graduate Research Supervision, Executive Education and Business Growth.

Areas of expertise

Cyber-sociology associated with distributed work, ubiquitous networks and hyper-connectivity (communications overload).

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Member-Academy of Management
Member-Australia New Zealand Academy of Management
Member-European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)
Member-International Sociology Association (ISA)
University of Auckland Business Review Editorial Board

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Kolb, D. G., Dery, K., & Huysman, M. (2014). Co-convenor: Sub-theme 44: Connectivity and mobility: Organizational control meets disruptive technologies. Paper presented at 30th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Rotterdam. 3 July - 5 July 2014. Related URL.
Dery, K., Kolb, D. G., & MacCormick, J. (2014). Working with flow: The evolving practice of smartphone technologies. European Journal of Information Systems, 23 (5), 558-570. 10.1057/ejis.2014.13
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/22864
Kolb, D. G. (2013). Virtually there: The paradox of proximity. In R. L. Morrison, H. D. Cooper-Thomas (Eds.) Relationships in Organizations: A work psychology perspective (pp. 171-192). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Breidbach, C., Kolb, D. G., & Srinivasan, A. (2013). Connectivity in Service Systems: Does Technology-Enablement Impact the Ability of a Service System to Co-Create Value?. Journal of Service Research, 16 (3), 428-441. 10.1177/1094670512470869
MacCormick, J. S., Dery, K., & Kolb, D. G. (2012). Engaged or just connected? Smartphones and employee engagement. Organizational Dynamics, 41 (3), 194-201. 10.1016/j.orgdyn.2012.03.007
Kolb, D. G., Prussia, G., & Francoeur, J. (2009). Connectivity and leadership: The influence of online activity on closeness and effectiveness. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 15 (4), 342-352. 10.1177/1548051809331503
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/17166
Kolb, D. G., Collins, P. D., & Lind, E. A. (2008). Requisite connectivity: Finding flow in a not-so-flat world. Organizational Dynamics, 37 (2), 181-189. 10.1016/j.orgdyn.2008.02.004
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/17163
Kolb, D. G. (2008). Exploring the metaphor of connectivity: Attributes, dimensions and duality. ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 29 (1), 127-144. 10.1177/0170840607084574
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/17164