Taking Teams Seriosly in the Co-creation of Firms and Economic Agency

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dc.contributor.author	Hull Kristensen, Peer
dc.contributor.author	Lotz, Maja
dc.date.accessioned	2010-11-11
dc.date.accessioned	2010-11-18T10:25:28Z
dc.date.available	2010-11-18T10:25:28Z
dc.date.issued	2010-11-18
dc.identifier.isbn	8791690757
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8205
dc.description.abstract	This paper suggests that it is time to take the agency of teams seriously. Whereas the debate has previously focused on how firms may function more effectively by using team-based work-organization, our aim is to discuss and understand how teams effect the evolutionary dynamic of companies. Fieldwork in four Danish manufacturing companies helped us discover that firms as “communities of teams” are highly dynamic entities with complex layers of different team forms that operate, innovate and improve by constantly recombining work, collaborating across organizational divisions and redistributing authority, thereby challenging some of the existing “idioms” of team research and theories of the firm. The paper builds on these findings as we attempt to rethink research on teams by re-describing the evolutionary dynamics of firms and suggesting some themes that call for comparative research.	en_US
dc.format.extent	33	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper;72, 2010
dc.title	Taking Teams Seriosly in the Co-creation of Firms and Economic Agency	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt10nov18 lbjl	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	International Center for Business and Politics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	DBP	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	International Center for Business and Politics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	Tonny	en_US
dc.idnumber	8791690757	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2010	en_US