New Frontiers in Teamwork: The Power and Potential of Studying Invisible Structures in Teams

The purpose of this symposium is to promote research that represents the new frontiers of teamwork. Specifically, we bring together research that examines “invisible” structural elements in teams, with the aim of starting a dialogue about how to study these structures. Structures may be invisible because they are extremely novel and therefore uncommon, or because we currently lack frameworks to “see” them. We hope that by bringing together cutting edge team research on topics such as Temporal Brokerage, Team-Level Algorithmic Control, Hierarchical Flexing, and Collective Emotion Culture Crafting, we can 1) establish a need for “seeing” invisible structures, 2) encourage the study of novel structural phenomena, and 3) reinvigorate the broader full-cycle OB research paradigm. A Network Perspective on Temporal Dispersion in Global Teams Presenter: Sujin Jang; INSEAD Presenter: Julija Mell; Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus U. Presenter: Sen Chai; ESSEC Business School Group-Level Responses to Algorithmic Management Systems in Distributed, High-Skill Work Settings Presenter: Katharina Lix; Engineering Dept., Stanford U. Presenter: Melissa Valentine; Stanford U. Team Hierarchical Flexing: How Start-Up Teams Create Fluid Intra-Team Hierarchies Presenter: Lindred L. Greer; U. of Michigan, Ross School of Business Presenter: Nicole Abi-Esber; Stanford GSB Presenter: Charles Chu; Stanford GSB Building an Affective Team: An Experimental Intervention for Crafting Explicit Emotion Culture Presenter: Elizabeth Baily Wolf; INSEAD Presenter: Jacob Levitt; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Sigal Barsade; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania