Constructing the Team: The Antecedents and Effects of Membership Model Divergence

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mortensen, Mark
• 署名单位: INSEAD Business School
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0881
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 909-931
• 关键词: teams; membership; Composition; BOUNDARIES; mental models

摘要

Scholars have established that team membership has wide-ranging effects on cognition, dynamics, processes, and performance. Underlying that scholarship is the assumption that team membership-who is and who is not a team member-is straightforward, unambiguous, and agreed upon by all members. Contrary to this assumption, I posit that mental models of membership increasingly diverge within teams as a result of changing environmental conditions. I build on the literatures on membership and on shared mental models to explore such membership model divergence. In a study of 38 formally defined software and product development teams, I test a model of structural and emergent drivers of membership model divergence and examine its effect on performance operating through team-level cognition. I use the findings of this study to explore its implications for both management theory and managerial practice.