Selected recent publications
Books
Malone, T. W. The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
Malone, T. W., Laubacher, R. J., & Scott Morton, M. S. (Eds.) Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Malone, T. W., Crowston, K. G., & Herman, G. (Eds.) Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Olson, G. M., Malone, T. W., and Smith, J. B. (Eds.) Coordination
Theory and Collaboration Technology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001.
Articles for general audiences
Thomas W. Malone, Robert J. Laubacher, Tammy Johns, The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization, Harvard Business Review, 89 (7/8): 56-65, July/August 2011
Thomas W. Malone; Anita Williams Woolley, Defend Your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women, Harvard Business Review, 89 (6): 32-33, June 2011.
Thomas W. Malone, Solving Climate Change with Crowdsourcing, MIT Sloan Experts Blog, Feb 6, 2011
Malone, T.W., Laubacher, R., & Dellarocas, C., The Collective Intelligence Genome, Sloan Management Review, Spring 2010, 5, 3, 21-31 (Reprint No. 51303).
Malone, T. W. What is collective intelligence and what will we do about it? (Academic Preface, Edited transcript of remarks at the official launch of the MIT Center for Collective Intellgence). In M. Tovey (Ed.), Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace. Oakton, VA: Earth Intelligence Network, 2008.
Reeves, B., Malone, T. W., & O'Driscoll, T. 2008, Leadership's Online Labs, Harvard Business Review, 86 (5): 58-67.
Malone, T. W. Looking to Wikipedia for answers. Financial Times (FT.com), Nov 5, 2008.
Malone, T. W. & Klein, M. Harnessiung collective intelligence to address global climate change (Invited Lead Essayh). Innovations: Technology|Governance|Globalization, Summer 2007, 2, (3), 15-26.
Ancona, D., Malone, T. W., Orlikowski, W. J., & Senge, P. M. In praise of the incomplete leader. Harvard Business Review, February 2007, 85 (2), 92-100.
Malone, T. W. Bringing the market inside. Harvard Business Review, April 2004, 82 (4), 106-114. (Reprinted in Chinese in Harvard Business Review China, July 2006).
Malone, T. W. Competing in the marketplace for values. Leader to Leader, Summer 2004, 33, pp. 53-58. (Excerpt reprinted in Science and Theology News, June 2005, 5, 10, p. 5).
Malone, T. W. Pioneers that cultivate a new model of work. Financial Times, August 12, 2004.
Malone, T. W. & Laubacher, R. J. The Rebirth of the Guild (Op ed piece). The Boston Globe, August 24, 2000, p. A17.
Malone, T. W. & Laubacher, R. J. The Dawn of the E-lance Economy. Harvard Business Review, September – October 1998, 76 (5), 144-152.
Malone, T. W. Is "Empowerment" just a Fad? Control, Decision-making, and Information Technology. Sloan Management Review, 1997, 38 (2), 23-35.
Academic articles
Hines, James H., Thomas W. Malone, Paulo Goncalves, George Herman, John Quimby, Mary Murphy-Hoyce, James Rice, James Patten, and Hiroshi Iishi, Construction by Replacement: A new approach to simulation modeling. System Dynamics Review, in press.
Woolley, A.W., Chabris, C.F., Pentland, A., Hashmi, N., & Malone, T.W. Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups September 30, 2010 (10.1126/science.1193147)
Malone, T. W., Crowston, K. G., Lee, J., Pentland, B., Dellarocas, C., Wyner, G., Quimby, J., Osborn, C. S., Bernstein, A., Herman, G., Klein, M., & O’Donnell, E. Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes. Management Science, 1999, 45, 3 (March), 425-443.
Bernstein, A., Klein, M., & Malone, T. W. The Process Recombinator: A tool for generating new business process ideas. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Charlotte, NC, December 13-15, 1999 (One of 5 papers nominated for Best Paper of Conference Award).
Wyner, G. M., & Malone, T. W. Cowboys or Commanders: Does Information Technology Lead to Decentralization? Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Columbus, OH, December 15-18, 1996.
Malone, T. W., Lai, K. Y., & Fry, C. Experiments with Oval: A radically tailorable tool for cooperative work. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 1995, 13 , 2 (April), 177-205.
Malone, T. W. & Crowston, K. The interdisciplinary study of coordination. ACM Computing Surveys, 1994 (March), 26 (1), 87-119.
Brynjolfsson, E., Malone, T. W., Gurbaxani, V., & Kambil, A. Does information technology lead to smaller firms? Management Science, 1994, 40 (12), 1628-1644.
Malone, T. W., Yates, J., & Benjamin, R. I. Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies, Communications of the ACM, 1987, 30, 484-497.
Interviews and other press reports
CCI research on measuring collective intelligence published in Science magazine, September 30, 2010.
Thomas W. Malone, Collective Brainpower, MIT Spectrum, Summer 2010
At Davos, MIT faculty discuss the nature of intelligence, January 28, 2010.
Lohr, Steve. The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused) ,New York Times, Business and Technology, unboxed, July 19, 2009.
Anderson, Chris. The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity. Wired Magazine: 17.06, May 22, 2009.
Scharmer, Claus Otto. The Power of Decentralization: Discovering the New Physics of Organizing (Interview with Professor Thomas Malone). Society for Organizational Learning, Dialog on Leadership website. May 31, 2001.
Rosenfeld, Jill. Free agents in the olde world (Interview with Thomas Malone), Fast Company, May 2001, p. 136.
Malone, T. W. State of the new economy / Voices / Thomas W. Malone (Interview), Fast Company, September 2000, p. 142.
Andrews, Fred. Merger Mania Got You Down? So, Start Thinking Small. New York Times, December 1, 1999, Business Section, p. 1.
Carr, N. (1999) “A New Way to Manage Process Knowledge” Harvard Business Review September-October 1999, pp. 24-25.
Wolken, J. The Dawning of Opportunity: An interview with MIT’s Thomas Malone (Cover story), Contract Professional, September 1999, 4, 1, 24-30.
Schwartz, P. Re-organization Man (Interview with Thomas Malone). Wired, July 1998, 134-135.
Malone, T. (Interview). Free on the Range: Tom Malone on the implications of the digital age. IEEE Internet Computing, May/June 1997, 1 (3), 8-20.
Congressional testimony
Malone, Thomas W. Testimony for US House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, American Worker at a Crossroads Project. October 29, 1997.
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