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The composition and formation of effective teams: computer science meets organizational psychology

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  • Abstract: Nowadays the composition and formation of effective teams is highly important for both companies to assure their competitiveness and for a wide range of emerging applications exploiting multiagent collaboration (e.g. crowdsourcing, human-agent collaborations). The aim of this article is to provide an integrative perspective on team composition, team formation, and their relationship with team performance. Thus, we review the contributions in both the computer science literature and the organizational psychology literature dealing with these topics. Our purpose is twofold. First, we aim at identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the contributions made by these two diverse bodies of research. Second, we aim at identifying cross-fertilization opportunities that help both disciplines benefit from one another. Given the volume of existing literature, our review is not intended to be exhaustive. Instead, we have preferred to focus on the most significant contributions in both fields together with recent contributions that break new ground to spur innovative research.
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    Ewa Andrejczuk, Rita Berger, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Víctor Marín-Puchades. 2018. The composition and formation of effective teams: computer science meets organizational psychology. The Knowledge Engineering Review 33(1), doi: 10.1017/S026988891800019X
    Ewa Andrejczuk, Rita Berger, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Víctor Marín-Puchades. 2018. The composition and formation of effective teams: computer science meets organizational psychology. The Knowledge Engineering Review 33(1), doi: 10.1017/S026988891800019X

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The composition and formation of effective teams: computer science meets organizational psychology

Abstract: Abstract: Nowadays the composition and formation of effective teams is highly important for both companies to assure their competitiveness and for a wide range of emerging applications exploiting multiagent collaboration (e.g. crowdsourcing, human-agent collaborations). The aim of this article is to provide an integrative perspective on team composition, team formation, and their relationship with team performance. Thus, we review the contributions in both the computer science literature and the organizational psychology literature dealing with these topics. Our purpose is twofold. First, we aim at identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the contributions made by these two diverse bodies of research. Second, we aim at identifying cross-fertilization opportunities that help both disciplines benefit from one another. Given the volume of existing literature, our review is not intended to be exhaustive. Instead, we have preferred to focus on the most significant contributions in both fields together with recent contributions that break new ground to spur innovative research.

    • This work is supported by projects CollectiveMind (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, under grant number TEC2013-49430- EXP), Collectiveware (TIN2015-66863-C2-1-R MINECO/ FEDER), 2017 SGR 172, and MILESS (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) TIN2013-45039-P Financed by FEDER. The first author is supported by an Industrial PhD scholarship from the Generalitat de Catalunya (DI-060).

    • Notice though that the authors make the strong assumption that there is a known rank of the best actions to take at any time.

    • Teamwork preferences refer to team members preferences on other team members to work with.

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    Ewa Andrejczuk, Rita Berger, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Víctor Marín-Puchades. 2018. The composition and formation of effective teams: computer science meets organizational psychology. The Knowledge Engineering Review 33(1), doi: 10.1017/S026988891800019X
    Ewa Andrejczuk, Rita Berger, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Víctor Marín-Puchades. 2018. The composition and formation of effective teams: computer science meets organizational psychology. The Knowledge Engineering Review 33(1), doi: 10.1017/S026988891800019X
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