In contemporary organizations, 65 to 95 percent of knowledge workers operate on more than one team simultaneously, sometimes concurrently working in ten or even more teams. Such arrangements have been referred to as multiple team membership (MTM). The research project aims to advance our understanding of when and how MTM positively influences team performance and unpack the dynamic relationship between MTM and team performance over time. We draw from prior theoretical work, which introduced the notion of teams as dynamic participation hubs or centers of activity through which individuals connect in different ways as they contribute to that activity. This conceptualization acknowledges that contemporary teams often do not comprise of clearly bounded sets of individuals but instead have blurred boundaries, with overlapping and fluid team memberships. To understand when and how MTM influences team performance over time, we collected longitudinal data over the course of a year from more than 20,000 open-source software development (OSS) teams (including more than 70,0000 team members). Whereas team research has traditionally approached teams as having a clear boundary between members and nonmembers, the proposed research paves the way to better understand new complexities of MTM and blurred team boundaries in contemporary open-source software development teams.
Duration: 08 / 2021 - 07 / 222
Source: SNF