Publications

02 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams

Keywords: by Melissa A. Valentine, Bradley R. Staats & Amy C. Edmondson

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

on individual performance are prone to this problem. It is a problem in investment banking and can also be a problem in sales organizations where individuals are compensated... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

Article

When Is Traditionalism an Asset and When Is It a Liability for Team Innovation? A Two-Study Empirical Examination

By: Laura Huang, Cristina B. Gibson, Bradley L. Kirkman and Debra L. Shapiro

Team innovation requires idea generating and idea implementing. In two studies, we examine how these team activities are affected by the extent to which members value traditionalism – that is, placing importance on preserving old ways of doing things over breaking... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Innovation and Invention; Diversity; Values and Beliefs; Performance Effectiveness

December 1994
Supplement

Anne Livingston and Power Max Systems (D-1): Building the PowerPlayer Software Team

Supplements Anne Livingston and Power Max Systems (A): Interviewing with the PowerPlayer Software Engineering Team. View Details

2006
Working Paper

Three Perspectives On Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, And Group Process

By: A. Edmondson, James R. Dillon and Kathryn S. Roloff

Read Now

2002
Other Unpublished Work

The Effect of Organizational Context on Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery

By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano

Keywords: Organizations; Performance; Health Care and Treatment

01 Apr 2011
Working Paper Summaries

When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance

Keywords: by Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino & Richard P. Larrick

November 2004 (Revised June 2005)
Background Note

Designing Products and Processes: Aligning Hierarchical Problem Levels with Problem-Solving Team Forms

All complex systems have four distinct hierarchical design levels: system objectives, architecture, interfaces, and components. Each level has a distinct design question associated with it. Distinguishing among these levels and understanding the questions associated... View Details

Keywords: Design; Complexity

Educators

06 Oct 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance

Keywords: by Bradley R. Staats, Melissa A. Valentine & Amy C. Edmondson; Video Game; Web Services

2003
Working Paper

The Effect of Organizational Context on Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery

By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano

December 1994
Supplement

Anne Livingston and Power Max Systems (D-2): Building the PowerPlayer Software Team

Supplements Anne Livingston and Power Max Systems (A): Interviewing with the PowerPlayer Software Engineering Team. View Details

August 2011
Case

Ockham Technologies (A): Building the Team

By: Noam Wasserman

Describes the issues facing a founder-ceo regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing development work. View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology

Educators

2018
Working Paper

Status Spillover: How Status in One Group Influences Perceptions and Behavior in Other Groups

By: Catarina Fernandes

Keywords: Status; Social Hierarchies; Groups And Teams; Sociometers; Spillovers

September 1988 (Revised October 1988)
Case

Anatomy of a ""Team Destroyer"": An Analysis of Individuals Who Stymie Interfunctional Coordination

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Suzy Wetlaufer

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Relationships; Behavior

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

this model of human capital as a portfolio of skills, and asks which of four candidates for a job is likely to possess the most portable skills. The frequency with which workers move in teams suggests that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

April 2012
Article

The Changing Ecology of Teams: New Directions for Teams Research

By: Ruth Wageman, Heidi K. Gardner and Mark Mortensen

The nature of collaboration has been changing at an accelerating pace, particularly in the last decade. Much of the published work in teams research, however, is still focused on the archetypal team that has well-defined membership, purposes, leadership, and standards... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Research; Change Management; Leadership; Standards; Performance Effectiveness; Theory; Civil Society or Community

2005
Chapter

Explaining Psychological Safety in Innovation Teams

By: A. Edmondson and Josephine Pichanick Mogelof

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Safety; Innovation and Management; Working Conditions; Social Psychology

December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
Exercise

Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for UN Negotiating Team Representatives: General Instructions and Confidential Information

Bellicoso is a multi-party conflict resolution simulation based loosely on the bitter civil war in El Salvador. It is designed to explore issues in: 1) the management of interactions between external negotiations between sides and internal negotiations within them, 2)... View Details

Keywords: War; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; El Salvador