AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Explore effectiveness of 11 collaboratives focusing on 11 different topics, as perceived by local improvement teams and to explore associations with collaborative-, organisational- and team-level factors. BACKGROUND Evidence underlying the effectiveness of quality improvement collaboratives is inconclusive and few studies investigated determinants of implementation success...

Developing students teaming skills has become common place in engineering education as a pedagogical tool to facilitate learning of technical content as well as to prepare students for professional practice. Engineering faculty typically determine the degree to which students have had an effective team experience by indirect methods such as homework or project grades along with self report team...

BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary rapid response teams focus on patients' emergent needs and manage critical situations to prevent avoidable deaths. Although research has focused primarily on outcomes, studies of the actual team effectiveness within the teams from multiple perspectives have been limited. OBJECTIVE To describe effectiveness of rapid response teams in a large teaching hospital in Ca...

We seek to identify work practices that make Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams effective. Particularly important to team effectiveness is decision making. In this paper, we report on an inductive qualitative analysis of 360 decision episodes of six FLOSS development teams. Our analysis revealed diversity in decision-making practices that seem to be related to differences...

The Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics (MARVS) is a theory of the representation of verbal semantics that is developed based on Mandarin Chinese data (Huang et al., 2000). This theory proposes two types of modules: event structure modules and role modules, as well as two sets of attributes: event-internal attributes and role-internal attributes which are linked to the event str...

Integrating and extending literature on international management and team effectiveness, we examined how macro context in multinational organizations (MNCs) influences work team learning and how team learning influences task performance and interpersonal relations. We examined these influences in a multimethod study of 115 teams in 20 subsidiaries of five MNCs. Controlling for micro contextual ...

Testing the effectiveness of user-tested patient information on recruitment rates across multiple trials: meta-analysis of data from the start programme Peter Bower, Jo Rick, Anne Kennedy, Chris Salisbury, David Collier, David Torgerson, Jonathan Graffy, Shaun Treweek, Sandra Eldridge, Vichithranie Madurasinghe, Peter Knapp, Adwoa Hughes-Morley, Nicola Small, CASPER Research team, Healthlines R...

Article history: This article illustrates how t Received 27 April 2007 Accepted 5 February 2009