Subgroup: Formation, Types, Intermediate Process and Influence

Team faultline: types, configuration and influence – evidence from China

“…Even though two teams have similar faultline strength, the team with relatively large faultline distance will split into more opposing subgroups, and the effects of faultlines on performance in the two teams will be very different. Previous studies have made theoretical and empirical development on three types of faultlines Cummings, 2012, 2013;Ni et al, 2015), as well as their configurational dimensions -faultline strength (Bezrukova et al, 2009;Gibson and Vermeulen, 2003;Lau and Murnighan, 2005;Li and Hambrick, 2005;Thatcher et al, 2003;Van Knippenberg et al, 2011) and faultline distance (Bezrukova et al, 2009;Molleman, 2005). It would be meaningful to integrate these disconnected studies into an aggregated framework.…”