Self-Organizing Into Winning Teams: Understanding the Mechanisms That Drive Successful Collaborations

Hopmeyer, Andrea; DeChurch, Leslie A.; Contractor, Noshir

doi:10.1177/1046496417724209

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“…Assembling on an ad hoc basis can be seen as associated with the concept of interpersonal attraction, where people develop an attitudinal positivity for one another (Huston & Levinger, 1978). This attraction is the result of the members' relatedness, which highlights the importance of relative (e.g., similarity), rather than absolute attributes (e.g., status), as well as the significance of relational attraction (familiarity) (Wax et al, 2017). These factors are conducive to shared mental models, as in and of themselves presuppose a common ground, and as our findings indicated, shared mental models support quality communication and help members identify with the shared values of the virtual team, which ultimately lead to perceived proximity.…”

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Shared mental models and perceived proximity: a comparative case study

Zamani

Pouloudi

2021

ITP

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PurposeThe aim of this study is to understand how virtual teams experience perceived proximity. Existing literature suggests that perceived proximity can be achieved through quality communication and increased identification. However, not much is known as to how these two may be achieved within the context of virtual teams.Design/methodology/approachThe authors address their research question through a comparative case study, with the help of two virtual teams of software developers and the authors adopt a subset from the Constructivist Grounded Theory Method procedures for the purposes of coding to understand the potential explanations regarding the two teams' differences in perceptions of perceived proximity.FindingsThe authors’ study shows that shared mental models support quality communication and team members to identify with the shared values of their team. Quality communication is easier achieved when the team shares a dynamic and evolving understanding of the tools for communication and collaboration. The authors also draw attention to the importance of how work is organised and the influence of the temporal dimension on virtual teams beyond the temporal organisation of collaborative work.Originality/valueThe value of this study is found in its contribution towards the development of a formal connection between perceived proximity and shared mental models, that is empirically grounded, and which holds an explanatory value in addressing how perceived proximity can be supported rather than compromised.

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Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

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Shared mental models and perceived proximity: a comparative case study

Zamani

Pouloudi

2021

ITP

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“…Geographically dispersed team environments present a number of issues that negatively influence team performance. These issues range from lack of personal ties to collaboration-related problems to leadership challenges (Gilson et al, 2015; Ortiz de Guinea, Webster, & Staples, 2012; Wax, DeChurch, & Contractor, 2017). Greater team dispersion presents additional hindrances to team performance because distance, time, culture, and multiple other boundaries restrict the opportunities for quality interactions and hinder team members’ abilities to cultivate interpersonal relationships.…”

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Team Dispersion and Performance: The Role of Team Communication and Transformational Leadership

Eisenberg

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DiTomaso

2019

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Organizations increasingly rely on virtual teams to access geographically dispersed expertise. Yet, team dispersion introduces challenges to team communication that may negatively influence team performance. Using a sample of 53 innovation teams representing a variety of geographic dispersion configurations from completely collocated to highly dispersed, we examined the moderating role of transformational leadership on the relationship between team dispersion, team communication, and team performance. Our findings suggest that while transformational leadership is effective in reducing the negative effects of dispersion in collocated teams or ones with low levels of geographic dispersion, it is less effective helping improve the performance of highly dispersed teams. This effect may be due to a transformational leader's difficulty in facilitating team communication in highly dispersed teams, where his or her influence might actually have counterproductive effects. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory, future research, and practice.

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“…Research has been conducted on a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG), Dragon Nest [33], which revealed that self-assembled teams form via three mechanisms: homophily, familiarity, and proximity; the authors show that successful and unsuccessful teams were homogeneous in terms of different characteristics, but successful teams are more often formed based on friendship than those unsuccessful teams.…”

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The Influence of Social Ties on Performance in Team-Based Online Games

2021

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Social ties are the invisible glue that keeps together human ecosystems. Despite the massive amount of research studying the role of social ties in communities (groups, teams, etc.) and society at large, little attention has been devoted to study their interplay with other human behavioral dynamics. Of particular interest is the influence that social ties have on human performance in collaborative team-based settings. Our research aims to elucidate the influence of social ties on individual and team performance dynamics. We will focus on a popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) collaborative teambased game, Defense of the Ancients 2 (Dota 2), a rich dataset with millions of players and matches. Our research reveals that, when playing with their friends, individuals are systematically more active in the game as opposed to taking part in a team of strangers. However, we find that increased activity does not homogeneously lead to an improvement in players' performance. Despite being beneficial to low skill players, playing with friends negatively affects performance of high skill players. Our findings shed light on the mixed influence of social ties on performance, and can inform new perspectives on virtual team management and on behavioral incentives.

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Self-Organizing Into Winning Teams: Understanding the Mechanisms That Drive Successful Collaborations

Cited by 30 publications

References 103 publications

Shared mental models and perceived proximity: a comparative case study

Shared mental models and perceived proximity: a comparative case study

Team Dispersion and Performance: The Role of Team Communication and Transformational Leadership

The Influence of Social Ties on Performance in Team-Based Online Games

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