Concluding the Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams series with a focus on team-based organizing, this title reveals how the context for teams is critical to their success. Environmental factors may determine team goal accomplishment more than factors internal to the team. In...

Team learning : a model for effectiveness in high performing teams / Kathleen Dechant, Victoria Marsick, Elizabeth Kasl -- Shared leadership : toward a multi-level theory of leadership / Craig L. Pearce, Henry P. Sims -- Team pay for novice, intermediate, and advanced teams / Robert L. Heneman,...

Effective knowledge work depends on bringing people together to form a team with the right mix of expertise for the project or problem on hand. Increasingly, that mix can only be created by finding people who are geographically dispersed across sites of the company or across several companies....

Innovation has become one of the primary core competencies of effective organizations. It leads to changes in products, services, organizational design, processes, strategies, and the systems that support them. It occurs when someone has an idea, shares it with others, and all find ways to turn...