Fostering Fast-response Spontaneous Virtual Team: Effects of Member Skill Awareness and Shared Governance on Team Cohesion and Outcomes

Social complexity and team cohesion in multiparty information systems development projects

“…Team cohesion refers to team members' ability to generate a shared understanding of and shared commitment to ISD (Boughzala et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2015). Team cohesion requires team members to bridge differences in interpretations around an object of understanding (i.e.…”

“…developers and analysts), and vice versa. Emerging social complexity can in turn lead to a situation where the perspectives and interpretations of team members become more and more fragmented (Boughzala, De Vreede, & Limayem, 2012;Yang, Tong, & Teo, 2015). While divergent thinking is important for innovation, team cohesion still remains crucial to ISD team performance as it enables the coordination of team resources towards the achievement of defined goals (McAvoy & Butler, 2009).…”

“…While divergent thinking is important for innovation, team cohesion still remains crucial to ISD team performance as it enables the coordination of team resources towards the achievement of defined goals (McAvoy & Butler, 2009). Team cohesion refers to team members' ability to generate a shared understanding of and shared commitment to ISD processes and outcomes (Boughzala et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2015). In particular, team cohesion is important in non-tame settings to ensure that collaboration is not impeded by deep-rooted tensions between pluralistic value systems.…”

Building Bridges, Burning Bridges: The Use of Boundary Objects in Agile Distributed ISD Teams

“…Team interactions support cohesion by reconciling the divergent perspectives of distributed team members coming from distinct organizational, geographical, and disciplinary backgrounds [16,17,18]. Team cohesion can be defined as the extent to which team members are able to reach a shared understanding of tasks, and their willingness to commit the resources at their disposal, in order to work towards the completion of these required tasks [17,19,20]. Team cohesion improves individual performance and also the level of trust between distributed team members, which in turn can promote deeper collaboration [16].…”

“…However, some emerging research suggests that in order for cohesion to emerge, team members must engage in dialogue to bridge contextual differences in their positions, interests, and cultural meanings [21,22,23,24]. This dialogical process ensures that team members become aligned through increased team cohesion [17,25].…”