Purpose – This paper aims to illustrate the interesting parallels that exist between the social behavior of farm animals and work‐teams as a means of offering a novel point of view from which to understand teams. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical literature on the social behavior...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the stages of group development are path‐dependent or whether a stage can have a direct influence beyond an adjacent stage; to test a model that distinguishes between task and process characteristics; and to examine the validity of...