How to Make the Team: Social Networks vs. Demography as Criteria for Designing Effective Teams

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Early Teams: The Impact of Team Demography on VC Financing and Going Public (2007, background): “As Reagans et al. (2004) articulate, there are “optimistic” and “pessimistic” views of heterogeneity in both traditions.”
Innovation in a global consulting firm: when the problem is too much diversity (2010, background): “The idea is that gaining access to diverse information is not necessarily only about having nonredundancy in managers’ networks but also about having connections that allow managers to tap into different environments (Reagans et al., 2004).”
The Double-Edged Swords of Autonomy and External Knowledge: Analyzing Team Effectiveness in a Multinational Organization (2010, background): “…spanning has tended to take an external perspective, highlighting the benefits of knowledge from the teams’ environment, including expert networks and document repositories both inside and outside their organization (e.g., Ancona & Caldwell, 1992; Collins & Clark, 2003; Reagans et al., 2004).”