6 Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

@article{Edmondson20076TP,
  title={6 Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process},
  author={Amy C. Edmondson and James R. Dillon and Kathryn Sarah Roloff},
  journal={The Academy of Management Annals},
  year={2007},
  volume={1},
  pages={269-314}
}
Abstract The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions about how members of newly formed teams learn to work together and how existing teams improve or adapt. Second, some have argued that teams play a crucial role in organizational learning. These interests have produced a growing and heterogeneous literature. Empirical studies of… 
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