Charting a course for collaboration: a multiteam perspective.

Assessing Collaboration Within and Between Teams: A Multiteam Systems Perspective

Developing assessment methods that capture an individual’s capability to collaborate can look to the team and multiteam systems literature, which identifies six critical components of collaboration. These six include team affect/motivation, team interaction processes, and team cognition, as well as corresponding constructs at the system level, multiteam affect/motivation, between-team interacti...

Responding Effectively to Civil Emergencies: The Role of Transactive Memory in the Performance of Multiteam Systems

Motivation Many of today’s most significant organizational challenges require the effective collaboration of collectives of various teams. Nowhere is the performance of such multiteam systems more important than in responding to civil emergencies. Research approach This field study analyses the determinants of performance among multiteam systems responding to civil emergencies in training exerc...

Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration

Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration

Perspective: teams won't solve this problem.

OBJECTIVE We link the problem of complex sociotechnical systems to a new unit-of-analysis and fruitful developing area of applied research, the multiteam system. BACKGROUND Teams are the dominant entity and theoretical lens being applied to understanding the performance of complex sociotechnical systems. We submit that such problems cannot be solved through the teams lens because complex soci...