The Functional Perspective as a Lens for Understanding Groups

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Teamwork in sport: a theoretical and integrative review (2014, background): “…– particularly highly cohesive teams who are especially prone to groupthink (e.g., Rovio, Eskola, Kozub, Duda, & Lintunen, 2009) – and be resolute on finding solutions that will most benefit the team, even if this causes disagreements throughout the process (Janis, 1972; Wittenbaum et al., 2004).”
Social Capital and Knowledge Integration in Digitally Enabled Teams (2008, background): “These norms support task debates and suppress personal attacks of team members (Wittenbaum et al. 2004), which promotes a cooperative motivational environment encouraging risk taking and tolerance of mistakes (Caldwell and O'Reilly 2003).”
A Sequential Analysis of Procedural Meeting Communication: How Teams Facilitate Their Meetings (2013, methodology): “The act4teams coding scheme builds upon the team processes literature (e.g. Cooke & Szumal, 1994; Huang, 2009; Okhuysen & Eisenhardt, 2002; Wittenbaum et al., 2004) as well as earlier classifications of intragroup interaction, such as interaction process analysis (IPA, Bales, 1950) or…”