Familiarity, Complexity, and Team Performance in Geographically Distributed Software Development

By J. Alberto Espinosa, Sandra A. Slaughter, Robert E. Kraut, James D. Herbsleb. Organ. Sci., 2007

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Information Systems, Social Psychology

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Lighting the way or stealing the shine? An examination of the duality in star scientists' effects on firm innovative performance (2015, background): “Collaboration is argued to increase familiarity and thus the efficiency and effectiveness of work routines used by a star’s colleagues in innovation (Espinosa et al., 2007).”
Examining the “I” in Team: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Influence of Team Narcissism Composition on Team Outcomes in the NBA (2020, background): “Familiarity is often operationalized as the number of performance episodes spent working together (Espinosa et al., 2007; Harrison, Mohammed, McGrath, Florey, & Vanderstoep, 2003; Sieweke & Zhao, 2015).”
The centrality of communication norm alignment, role clarity, and trust in global project teams (2016, background): “Espinosa et al. (2007) use the term “presence awareness”, where team members keep each other informed of their availability and accessibility.”
Go (Con)figure: Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams (2009, positive): “…with more sites; teams with more varied (and potentially conflicting) expertise (Boh et al. 2007), roles, goals, and incentives; teams whose members have prior experience working with each other (Espinosa et al. 2007); and teams with more variance on spatio-temporal or socio-demographic dimensions.”
Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: Transforming Resources into Performance (2012, positive): “, relational resources) has been shown to improve general team performance (Espinosa et al., 2007; Goodman & Leyden, 1991; Reagans, Argote, & Brooks, 2005; Staats, Valentine, & Edmondson, 2011).”
Influence of social and technical factors for evaluating contribution in GitHub (2014, background): “This may be similar to the effect of familiarity in distributed software development, where team familiarity is associated with team performance, especially for geographically dispersed teams (as many GitHub projects are) [9].”
Which Problems to Solve? Online Knowledge Sharing and Attention Allocation in Organizations (2014, background): “It also may come from prior familiarity, which establishesmutual knowledge and expectations of ongoing reciprocity (e.g., Cramton, 2001; Espinosa et al., 2007).”
Unpacking Team Familiarity: The Effects of Geographic Location and Hierarchical Role (2012, background): “Earlier researchers’ work has found that team familiarity not only has a positive effect on project team performance (Espinosa et al. 2007, Huckman et al. 2009, Reagans et al. 2005), but it also helps teams cope with contingencies such as coordination complexity (Espinosa et al. 2007) and diversity…”
Unlocking Founding Team Prior Shared Experience: A Transactive Memory System Perspective (2012, background): “The productivity increase is attributed to the desirable match between team member interactions and people-environment interactions (Espinosa et al., 2007; Goodman and Leyden, 1991).”
Bridging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Guidelines for Conducting Mixed Methods Research in Information Systems (2013, background): “Inter-rater reliability was discussed in the qualitative study (i.e., Espinosa et al. 2007a).”