Go (Con)figure: Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams

By Michael Boyer O'Leary, Mark Mortensen. Organ. Sci., 2009

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Research regarding geographically dispersed teams (GDTs) is increasingly common and has yielded many insights regarding the effects of spatio-temporal and socio-demographic factors on GDT functioni...

Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Strategy and Management

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science (2015, background): “, 2009), and when subgroup size is imbalanced (e.g., six members in one subgroup and two members in another subgroup; O’Leary and Mortensen, 2010).”
Modeling team knowledge sharing and team flexibility: The role of within-team competition (2014, background): “increasingly pervasive in many intra-organizational and inter-organizational forms (Kirkman et al., 2004; O’Leary and Cummings, 2007; O’Leary and Mortensen, 2010).”
Why individuals in larger teams perform worse (2012, background): “Alternatively, members may build relationships with a small subset of teammates; however, sub-group formation harms perceptions that support is available from the entire team by promoting conflict between sub-groups (Lau & Murnighan, 2005; Parris, 2003; Thatcher, Jehn, & Zanutto, 2003), political co”
Identity and identification at work (2016, background): “Empirical data suggests that configurations of geographically dispersed teams considerably affect team identification, such that having all members isolated is more beneficial for identification than having several geographic subgroups (O’Leary & Mortensen, 2010).”
The centrality of communication norm alignment, role clarity, and trust in global project teams (2016, background): “Collaboration in a distributed team may “sometimes amount to a fragile link spanning powerful nested local communications” (Cramton and Hinds, 2014, p. 1076), as the existence of subgroups should not be underestimated (Carton and Cummings, 2012; O'Leary and Mortensen, 2010; Cramton and Hinds, 2005).”
Global organizational communities of practice: The effects of nationality diversity, psychological safety, and media richness on community performance (2013, background): “Social categorization processes engaged by moderately diverse group composition increases the chance for subgroup formation (Lau and Murnighan, 2005; Li and Hambrick, 2005), meaning that a unitary group identity will be less likely to emerge, resulting in less effective group processes (Gibson and V”
Mapping 50 Years of Small Group Research Through Small Group Research (2020, methodology): “…rest of the cluster examining diversity, creativity, and transactive memory, which have been applied to the study of virtual teams in work and communication environments (e.g., Eisenberg et al., 2019; Gilson et al., 2015; Han & Beyerlein, 2016; Martins & Shalley, 2011; O’Leary & Mortensen, 2010).”
Unpacking Team Familiarity: The Effects of Geographic Location and Hierarchical Role (2012, background): “Substantial attention has been directed to identifying factors that may improve these knowledge teams’ productivity (Haas and Hansen 2007, O’Leary and Mortensen 2010).”
Group Faultlines (2012, background): “Asymmetry in subgroup perceptions of conflict might lead to strong resentment and frustration across the subgroups, making effective communication difficult (O’Leary & Mortensen, 2010).”
Transactive Memory Systems 1985–2010: An Integrative Framework of Key Dimensions, Antecedents, and Consequences (2011, background): “O'Leary and Mortensen (2010) found that the effect of geographic distribution on the development of transactive memory systems in virtual teams depended on the configuration or number of team members at each location.”