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JOB Call for Papers: Special Issue on Teams |
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| Posted by: | Heidi K. Gardner |
| Title/Position: | Assistant Professor |
| School/Organization: | Harvard Business School |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | November 25th, 2009 |
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The editors of the Journal of Organizational Behavior intend to publish a special issue of the journal on the subject of The Changing Ecology of Teams: New Forms, New Work, New Leadership (or: “Not Your Grandfather’s Work Team”).
Guest Editors: Ruth Wageman, Harvard University; Heidi K. Gardner, Harvard Business School; and Mark Mortensen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Background and rationale for special issue:
The nature of collaboration has been changing at an accelerating pace, particularly within the last decade. Changes in communications technology, organizational purposes, and the social dynamics of new generations of young professionals are together leading to the emergence of new kinds of
teams in organizational life. As a consequence, new methods and theories are necessary to generate an understanding of these teams. The majority of teams research, however, has focused on one archetypal form of team, with a relatively simple structure: a defined task and context, reasonably stable and exclusive membership, and a designated team leader who manages the work process. We now need new approaches that expand our scholarly knowledge of more modern team designs and that allow better-informed action in social systems.
Only recently have scholars begun to study teams composed of individuals spread across different countries, languages, and cultures, and interacting only through mediating technologies. Rarely do scholars study teams whose members work on multiple teams, each with a different and fluidly shifting set of members. Even less frequently studied are teams that have no identified leader, or those that share leadership responsibilities. When scholars do study such teams, they typically label them as unique types (e.g., “virtual,” “project-based,” or “self-managing”), thereby differentiating them from so-called “traditional” teams. Yet teams displaying all the characteristics of these new team forms are fast becoming the norm rather than the exception for how collaborative work is conducted in organizations. The purpose of this special issue is to invite and stimulate research and theory that explores these modern forms, new purposes, and non-traditional leadership structures of teams in the 21st century.
Potential topics/ideas for contributors:
To achieve the goals of the special issue, we invite manuscripts that draw on perspectives from a range of disciplines, including communications, education, organizational behavior, psychology, public policy and management, and sociology. We encourage submissions that are related (but not limited) to the following issues:
1. New forms of teams
2. New collaborative work
3. New leadership
The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2010. The special issue is intended for publication midway through 2011.
Papers to be considered for this special issue should be submitted online via
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/job (selecting ‘Special Issue Paper’ as the Manuscript Type). Please direct questions about the submission process, or any administrative matter, to Managing Editor, Kaylene Ascough, k.ascough@uq.edu.au
The editors of the special issue are very happy to discuss initial ideas for papers, and can be
contacted directly:
Ruth Wageman
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
rwageman@wjh.harvard.edu
Heidi K. Gardner
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
hgardner@hbs.edu
Mark Mortensen
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
50 Memorial Drive, Room E52-553
Cambridge, MA 02142
markm@mit.edu
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