Purpose: Organizations and their actors are increasingly using video surveillance to monitor organizational members, employees, clients, and customers. The use of such technologies in workplaces creates a virtual panopticon and increases uncertainty for those under surveillance. Video...

After many years of developing in small islands scattered around different disciplines, small group research has reached a point where interdisciplinary scholarship has the potential to foster major progress. The goal of this special issue on interdisciplinary perspectives is to capitalize on...

The present study examined the effects of specificity, communication, ability differences, and work allocation, on the utilization of transactive memory in work groups. Clerical staff members (N = 36) worked individually and then with a coworker to complete a quiz covering six domains of...

We examined the possibility that teams composed primarily of individuals with personality characteristics conducive to team creativity (e.g., high extraversion, high openness to experience, low conscientiousness, high neuroticism, low agreeableness) would show synergistic increases in creativity...

We present a conceptual framework that identifies key sets of variables pertinent to understanding technology-supported groups. We also describe an agenda for future research and make some suggestions about how the interdisciplinary research community could encourage the kinds of integrative...

This chapter reviews the empirical research on collaboration technologies and work groups. We carried out an extensive review of 50 journals, and all of the books, technology reports and working papers we could find across disciplines. A total of 51 articles were reviewed with more than 150...

This chapter presents an overview of the ideas of 17 groups of researchers across disciplines whose work collectively accounts for a large proportion of the conceptual foundations in this area of study