Faculty : Terri L. Griffith
Professor of Management

Terri L. Griffith is Professor of Management in the Leavey School of Business. Before coming to Santa Clara University, Professor Griffith was on the faculties of Washington University, St. Louis and the University of Arizona. She has also held visiting positions at UC Berkeley; Purdue University; Northwestern University; the Melbourne School of Business; and the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration in Bangkok, Thailand. Other international experience includes a United States Information Agency funded "train the trainer" program in Bulgaria where she and other faculty presented U.S. business education topics and techniques.

Her research and consulting interests include the implementation and effective use of new technologies and organizational practices, most recently focusing on virtual teams and “negotiated implementation.” Her recent field research includes sites within the Sutherland Group, a major imaging company, and two major high-techs. Her work is published in journals such as: Organization Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Academy of Management Review. She recently co-edited the book, Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Technology (2000, JAI Press).

Professor Griffith received her M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration in the field of organizational psychology and theory. Her bachelor's degree in psychology was granted by the University of California, Berkeley.

She is a member of the Academy of Management, an editorial board member of the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management and the Journal of Managerial Issues, a senior editor for Organization Science, as well as an associate editor for MIS Quarterly. She is also the past Convenor of the Organization Science Winter Conference, an annual "think tank" event which draws academics as well as senior executives from firms such as Xerox PARC, Citigroup, and GE.

Courses Taught
• Management.com 2
• Managing Technology Professionals 3
• Organizational Behavior 1, 2, 3, 4
• Organizational Design 2, 3
• Groups in Organizations 2
• Power and Politics in Organizations 2
• Negotiation and Conflict Management 3
• Human Resource Management 1, 3
• Organizational Change 2, 3
• Honors Organizational Behavior 1
1Undergraduate, 2MBA, 3Executive-MBA, 4Ph.D.

Research
Publications
Griffith, T.L., Tansik, D.A., & Benson, L. III (forthcoming). Negotiating successful technology implementation: An empirical investigation of World Wide Web use. Group Decision and Negotiation.

Mannix, E.A., Griffith, T.L., & Neale, M.A. (forthcoming). The phenomenology of conflict in virtual work teams. In P. Hinds and S. Kiesler (Eds.), Distributed work: New research on working across distance using technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Griffith, T.L., Sawyer, J.E., & Neale, M.A. (forthcoming). Information technology as a jealous mistress: Competition for knowledge between individuals and organizations. In A. Segars, J. Sampler, & B. Zmud (Eds.), Redefining the organizational roles of information technology in the information age: MIS Quarterly monograph. University of Minnesota Press.

Contact Information
St. Joseph’s Hall #116
Department of Management
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053

Phone: 408/551-6022
Fax: 801/705-2116
E-Mail: tgriffith@scu.edu