Bridging the Boundary: External Activity and Performance in Organizational Teams.
- Deborah G. . Ancona, D. Caldwell
- Business
- 1 December 1992
We thank Lotte Bailyn, Keith Mumighan. Elaine RtMnanelli, the Center for Innovation Management Studies. Bob Sutton, and tfie anonymous reviewers at Administrative Science Quarteriy for their support…
Demography and Design: Predictors of New Product Team Performance
- Deborah G. . Ancona, D. Caldwell
- Business
- 1 August 1992
The increasing reliance on teams in organizations raises the question of how these teams should be formed. Should they be formed completely of engineers or should they include a range of specialists?…
Taking Time to Integrate Temporal Research
- Deborah G. . Ancona, Gerardo A. Okhuysen, L. Perlow
- Business
- 1 October 2001
Research on time in organizations spans disciplines and introduces a wide range of concepts. Here we set out to find an underlying structure to clarify the current state of temporal research. Our…
Outward Bound: Strategic for Team Survival in an Organization
- Deborah G. . Ancona
- Business
- 1 June 1990
Using an external perspective as a research lens, this study examined team-context interaction in five consulting teams. The data revealed three strategies toward the teams' environment: informing,…
Time: A New Research Lens
- Deborah G. . Ancona, P. Goodman, B. Lawrence, M. Tushman
- Business
- 1 October 2001
The article discusses the issue of time as it pertains to organizational research. The author believes that looking at research in terms of time is a powerful tool in assessing organizational…
Outward Bound: Strategies for Team Survival in the Organization
- Deborah G. . Ancona
- Business
- 23 August 2015
Using the external perspective as a research lens, this study examines team-context interaction in five consulting teams. The data show three strategies toward the environment: informing, parading,…
Beyond Task and Maintenance: Defining External Functions in Groups
- Deborah G. . Ancona, D. Caldwell
- Business
- 19 February 2008
Using interview and log data from 38 new product team managers and 15 team members, we identify a set of activities that group members use to manage their dependence on external groups. Team members…
X-Teams: How To Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, And Succeed
- Deborah G. . Ancona, Henrik Bresman
- Business
- 17 May 2007
Why do good teams fail? Very often, argue Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, it is because they are looking inward instead of outward. Based on years of research examining teams across many…
In praise of the incomplete leader
- Deborah G. . Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, W. Orlikowski, P. Senge
- Business, EngineeringIEEE Engineering Management Review
- 1 February 2007
This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright and which are likely to be copyrighted.
The Functional Perspective as a Lens for Understanding Groups
- G. M. Wittenbaum, A. Hollingshead, Kay Yoon
- Business
- 1 February 2004
The functional perspective is a normative approach to describing and predicting group performance that focuses on the functions of inputs and/or processes. The aim of theory and research from this…
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