Abstract The social network perspective provides a valuable lens to understand the effectiveness of team leaders. In understanding leadership impact in networks, an important question concerns structural influence leader centrality advice-giving networks on performance. Taking inconsistent evidence for positive relationship and as starting point, we suggest that is contingent needs meet communi...

The study presented in this article examined how specific communication behaviors among team members interacted with task interdependence in relation to the building and changing of trust within 53 virtual project teams. At the mid-point of the teams’ projects, our results showed that task-oriented communications among team members related significantly to trust, and that communications conveyi...

We explored whether voluntary survey completion by team members (in aggregate) is predictable from team members' collective evaluations of team-emergent states. In doing so, we reanalyze less-than-complete survey data on 110 teams from a published field study, using so-called traditional and modern missing data techniques to probe the sensitivity of these team-level relationships to data missin...