"You build a team around top-notch talent. The team members work well together; they're committed to the mission and highly motivated to perform. Yet the results are disappointing. You're not seeing creativity and flexibility. You're not getting breakthrough ideas. 'Good' teams build...

This paper proposes a team-based, meso-level perspective on dynamic capabilities. We argue that team-learning routines constitute a critical link between managerial cognition and organization-level processes of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. We draw from the literature to develop four...

How do teams complete a task involving critical knowledge that is both complex and external to the team itself? This is a task characterized by a particularly difficult tradeoff between external search for important knowledge on one hand and internal coordination on the other. I explore the...

How do teams complete a task involving critical knowledge that is both complex and external to the team itself? This is a task characterized by a particularly difficult tradeoff between external search for important knowledge on one hand and internal coordination on the other. I explore the...