The Emerald Handbook of Group and Team Communication Research considers the current research of group communication scholars, provides an overview of major foci in the discipline, and points toward possible trajectories for future scholarship. It establishes group communication's central role...

1. Designing for drift : planning ethnographic qualitative research on groups / Michael G. Pratt and Najung Kim -- 2. Experimental designs for research on small groups : the five Ps / Patrick R. Laughlin -- 3. Running laboratory experiments with groups / Gwen M. Wittenbaum -- 4. Group research...

We examined the effects of group structure and electronic communication patterns on the performance of 18 multinational teams over an 8-month period. The teams were composed of a mix of Western and non-Western executives located throughout the world. In these highly diverse teams, team...