Sherry M.B. Thatcher is the J. Henry Fellers Professor of Business Administration, a Moore Business Partnership Foundation Fellow, and the previous chair of the Department of Management at the Darla Moore School of Business. Her research revolves around teams and includes the study of intragroup conflict as it relates to diversity, faultlines, identity and the effects of computer-mediated communication. She has authored numerous scholarly publications in these areas, including articles in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Journal of Management and Decision Support Systems. She received the prestigious Educational Foundation Award for Research from the University of South Carolina in 2016 and has received numerous best paper awards. Her research has been funded by both private and public organizations, including the National Science Foundation. Thatcher is currently an associate editor at the Academy of Management Review and serves or has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management and Small Group Research.

Interests

• Teams

• Team Diversity

• Team Conflict