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Contribution to Book
Technology and Teams: The Next Ten Years
Management & Entrepreneurship
  • Terri L. Griffith, Santa Clara University
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Abstract

Purpose – The technologies teams use in organizations have dramatically changed in the 11 years since the 2000 Volume, Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Technology. This is an update focusing on new research and perspectives.

Approach – I recall where we left off in 2000 and then present a plea for changing our research approach to one that focuses on actionable research more aligned on how teams design their work than the effects we see when they do. I review a variety of literatures relevant to teams and technology and then suggest what the next 10 years may bring.

Findings – The scholarship on teams, technology, and teams and technology has blossomed, though not evenly. We are only beginning to see actionable research related to teams and technology.

Practical implications – The pace of organizationally relevant technology change has outstripped our ability to provide high-quality research in a timely manner if we maintain our current practices of studying individual or even interactions of effects as they exist in organizations. Our research will be more helpful if we shift our focus to how team members design their work.

Originality – I make two direct and dramatic requests of my colleagues. First, that they become more precise in their presentation of or at least specify the technological settings used in their research. Second, that they shift to actionable research that explicitly considers team, technology, and the processes through which team members design their work.

Chapter of
Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research
Part of
Research on Managing Groups and Teams, Volume 15
Editor
Margaret A. Neale
Elizabeth A. Mannix
Citation Information
Griffith, T.L. (2012). Technology and Teams: The Next Ten Years. In Mannix, E.A. & Neale, M.A. (Eds.) Looking Back, Moving Forwards: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK, 245-278.