Dr. J.N. (Julija) Mell

Julija Mell
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Member ERIM
Field: Organisation
Affiliated since 2011

Julija Mell is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour in the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management of Rotterdam School of Management. She is the Academic Director of the Cologne-Rotterdam Executive MBA. She obtained her PhD in Organizational Behavior in 2015 at Erasmus University Rotterdam and her Diploma in Psychology in 2010 at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

Her research focuses on collaboration across boundaries – for example, bridging cognitive boundaries within diverse teams, bridging geographical and cultural boundaries within globally dispersed teams, and bridging structural boundaries within complex social systems and networks. Her work has been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Management Studies. Her research has been recognized by several awards, including the ERIM Outstanding Performance by a Young Researcher Award (2021), the ERIM Top Article Award (2021), the Academy of Management’s Managerial and Organizational Cognition Divison’s Best Paper Award (2021), and INGroup’s Best Conference Paper Award (2019).
Julija teaches on topics surrounding Organizational Behavior, Teams, Leadership, and Social Networks in RSM’s Bachelor, Master, Full-time MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Education programs.

Publications

Article (11)

  • Academic (10)

    • George, M., Strauss, K., Mell, J., & Vough, H. (2023). When “Who I Am” Is Under Threat: Measures of Threat to Identity Value, Meanings, and Enactment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(12), 1952-1978. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001114

    • Mell, J. N., van Knippenberg, D., van Ginkel, W. P., & Heugens, P. P. M. A. R. (2022). From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity. Journal of Management Studies, 59(7), 1723-1755. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12797

    • Mell, J. N., Quintane, E., Hirst, G., & Carnegie, A. (2021). Protecting Their Turf: When and Why Supervisors Undermine Employee Boundary Spanning. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(6), 1009-1019. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000960

    • Mell, J. N., Jang, S., & Chai, S. (2021). Bridging temporal divides: Temporal brokerage in global teams and its impact on individual performance. Organization Science, 32(3), 731-751. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.1406, https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.1406

    • Mell, J., DeChurch, L., Leenders, R., & Contractor, N. (2020). Identity Asymmetries: An Experimental Investigation of Social Identity and Information Exchange in Multiteam Systems. Academy of Management Journal, 63(5), 1561-1590. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2018.0325

    • van Knippenberg, D., & Mell, J. (2016). Past, present, and potential future of team diversity reearch: From compositional diversity to emergent diversity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 136, 135-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.05.007

    • Koellinger, PD., Mell, J., Pohl, I., Roessler, C., & Treffers, T. (2015). Self-employed But Looking: A Labour Market Experiment. Economica, 82(325), 137-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12115

    • Ziegler, M., Poropat, A., & Mell, J. (2014). Does the length of a questionnaire matter? Expected and unexpected answers from generalizability theory. Journal of Individual Differences, 35(4), 250-261. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000147

    • Mell, J., van Knippenberg, D., & van Ginkel, W. (2013). The Catalyst Effect: The Impact of Transactive Memory System Structure on Team Performance. Academy of Management Journal, 57(4), 1154-1173. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.0589

    • Schoeder, T., Rogers, K. B., Ike, S., Mell, J., & Scholl, W. (2013). Affective Meanings of Stereotyped Social Groups in Cross-Cultural Comparison. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 16(6), 717-733. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430213491788

  • Professional (1)

    • Mell, J., van Knippenberg, D., & Ginkel, W. (2014). The catalyst effect: how meta-knowledge can improve team performance. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 20(4), 18-19. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/77376

Chapter (2)

  • Academic (2)

    • van Knippenberg, D., & Mell, J. N. (2017). Team diversity and learning in organizations. In The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning (pp. 475-490). Ithaca/Oxford University Press.

    • Knippenberg, D., & Mell, J. (2017). Team diversity and learning in organizations. In L. Argote, & J. Levine (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning (pp. 475–490). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190263362.013.44

Doctoral Thesis (1)

  • Internal (1)

    • Mell, J. (2015). Connecting Minds: On the Role of Metaknowledge in Knowledge Coordination. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).

Teaching case (5)

Working paper (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Incerti, V., Mell, J., Jang, S., Mortensen, M., & Yücesan, E. (2020). Who benefits from multiple team membership? An investigation of how the structure of MTM shapes team- and system-level performance. Advance online publication.

Additional activities (1)

  • Organization Science (Journal)

    Editorial work (Academic)

PhD Tracks (2)

PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Rowan Moelijker
  • Time frame: 2021 -
Multiple team membership and workplace inclusion
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Longjiao Li
  • Time frame: 2024 -

Events (4)

2018
May
03
Identity asymmetries: An experimental investigation of social identity and information exchange in multiteam systems
Research Seminar
As: Speaker
2015
November
05
Connecting Minds: On the Role of Metaknowledge in Knowledge Coordination
PhD Defence
As: Speaker
2013
October
14
The Social Construction of Family Ties and Success in the Job Market
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2013
April
25
Going Crazy with Globalpark
PhD Seminar ERIM Doctoral Programme
As: Speaker

Address

Visiting address

Office: Mandeville Building T10-39
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

Research Initiatives

Latest publication

Article

George, M., Strauss, K., Mell, J., & Vough, H. (2023). When “Who I Am” Is Under Threat: Measures of Threat to Identity Value, Meanings, and Enactment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(12), 1952-1978. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001114