Dr. Monika Maślikowska is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich (ATR, Department of Psychology). She also serves as a Co-chair in the Team Performance Management track (OB&HRM) at the European Academy of Management (EURAM). She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Lugano, Switzerland (Summa cum Laude), which she pursued thanks to the awarded ESKAS grant. Previously, she had also been a visiting researcher at INSEAD (USI Shadowing Grant) and EM Normandie (France), and collaborated with Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), and Hanken School of Economics (Finland).

Dr. Maślikowska’s research focuses on the aspects of team collaboration (incl., team cohesion, alignment, coordination, passion, diversity) in dynamic (virtual collaboration, boundary spanning, multi-teaming, sub-team formation, moving on and off the team) and extreme contexts (analog space missions, polar research, pandemic, war, and sustainability crises). She published papers in Academy of Management Learning and Education and Facilities journals, book chapters (Routledge), and she presented at multiple international academic conferences (AOM, EURAM, EGOS, INGroup). For her work, she received the Best Student Paper award (EURAM), and a nomination for Best Student Paper award (INGroup).

Apart from conducting research, Dr. Maślikowska also pursued teaching at an academic level (UZH, USI, SSE, Hanken), and worked in industry for several years (incl. Amazon, Ferrero, World Challenges Programme). She continues to collaborate with many international organizations (Lunares - Analog Space Station, Nestlé, IKEA, International Food Waste Coalition, Oatly, Too Good to Go, Netguru, UPS, Impel Group), with whom she conducts academic research projects.

Journal Papers

• Maślikowska, M., & Gibbert, M. 2022. Dynamic Boundaries in Virtual Student Teams: Is Participant Alignment the New Team Cohesion? Academy of Management Learning and Education. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2020.0524.
• Maślikowska, M., & Gibbert, M. 2019. The relationship between working spaces and organizational cultures. Facilities, 37(13/14): 1153-1165. https://doi.org/10.1108/F-06-2018-0072.

Conferences

• Maślikowska, M., & Schmutz, J. (2023). Thriving in Isolation: Confinement, Resilience, and Effective Teamwork (CRET). Swiss Polar Day (SPI), Sion
• Maślikowska, M., Gibbert, M. 2022. How can dynamic virtual teams use boundary spanning for sustainable innovation? Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Seattle-Virtual, https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.16703abstract
• Maślikowska, M., Gibbert, M. 2022. Using Boundary Spanning for Sustainable Innovation in Dynamic Virtual Teams: The Role of Fluid Coordination. INGroup, Hamburg.
• Maślikowska, M., & Gibbert, M. 2022. The coordination of boundary spanning for sustainable innovation in dynamic virtual teams. EURAM, Winterthur.
• Maślikowska, M., & Gibbert, M. 2021. Dynamic boundaries in virtual student teams: Do we still need team cohesion? Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Virtual. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.10028abstract.
• Maślikowska, M., & Gibbert, M. 2021. Dynamic boundaries in virtual teams: Is participant alignment the new team cohesion? EGOS, Amsterdam-Virtual.
• Maślikowska, M. 2020. How do dynamic boundaries affect team cohesion in virtual student teams? EURAM, Dublin-Virtual.
• Maślikowska, M., & Gibbert, M. 2019. Two Levels of ‘Fit’ between Working Spaces and Organizational Culture: A Comparative Case Study. EURAM, Lisbon.

Book Chapters

• Maślikowska, M. 2020. A learning blender: How virtual team set-up influences outcomes. In M. Gibbert, L. Välikangas, & M. Luistro-Jonsson (Eds.), The Sustainability Grand Challenge: A Wicked Learning Workbook (1st ed.): 77–90. Routledge.
• Gibbert, M., Maślikowska, M., & Mazursky, D. 2020. Wicked pedagogy as creative bricolage. In M. Gibbert, L. Välikangas, & M. Luistro-Jonsson (Eds.), The Sustainability Grand Challenge: A Wicked Learning Workbook (1st ed.): 119–131. Routledge.
• Maślikowska, M. 2020. Sharing student voices. In M. Gibbert, L. Välikangas, & M. Luistro-Jonsson (Eds.), The Sustainability Grand Challenge: A Wicked Learning Workbook (1st ed.): 145–159. Routledge.

Awards, Nominations, Grants

• Best Student Paper Award nomination at the INGroup conference for the paper “Using Boundary Spanning for Sustainable Innovation in Dynamic Virtual Teams: The Role of Fluid Coordination.” (2022)
• Shadowing Grant to pursue a visiting research month at INSEAD (France) in collaboration with Prof. Spencer Harrison, awarded by the Equal Opportunities Service at USI (2021)
• Best Emerging Researcher Paper Award in Pedagogical Innovation and Research in Management Education track at the European Academy of Management conference for the paper “How do dynamic boundaries affect team cohesion in virtual student teams?” (2020)
• Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences SAGW award for supporting UN sustainability Goals to M. Gibbert, M. Maślikowska, and C. Switzer (WCP), for the event “UN Sustainable Development Goals: Tackling World Challenges” (2018)
• Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars ESKAS for conducting a Ph.D. (2017-2021)