The project will start in fall 2010 and will encompass an in-depth, longitudinal examination of work teams (e.g., new product development teams, R&D teams) in order to develop and test theory on how teams innovate and the critical processes that evolve over time. The investigation will focus on three aspects of teams: diversity, leadership, and team member relationships. These three factors are grounded in disparate streams of research, but proposed to be integrated in order to create a richer and more complete understanding of how teams innovate.
Two PhD students and a research assistant will be financed full-time from this grant over three years. The ICCL senior researchers who will work on the project are Harry Barkema, Jackie Coyle-Shapiro and Connson Locke.