Goal Decomposition and Team Formation

This chapter provides a review of the scholarly literature on entrepreneurial teams and team formation. It pays special attention to two emerging areas of research that present many promising opportunities for future work. First, the chapter discusses the role of resource transfer in the context of start-up firms. It argues that an understanding of the antecedents and consequences of the founding process would be significantly advanced by more explicit theorizing and effort to empirically identify the specific types of resources entrepreneurial team members bring to start-up firms. It highlights one recent advancement in this space—work that has focused on a team’s ability to transfer customer and client relationships from the parent to start-up firms—and provides an outline of open research questions in this realm. Second, the chapter provides a primer on a recent methodological advancement—the use of two-sided assortative matching models—that can be applied to entrepreneurial team assembly to alleviate ongoing concerns that team formation is fundamentally an endogenous process. It demonstrates how these models can be applied using a wide variety of founder, cofounder, and early team member attributes, including an individual’s ability to transfer customer relationships. Importantly, it proposes that synergies emerging from the use of two-sided assortative matching models to study a broader set of team member attributes that include resource transfer will open promising new avenues for future research.

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Team formation methods for increasing interaction during in-class group work

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin ◽

10.1145/1151954.1067525 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 291-295 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Katherine Deibel

Keyword(s):

Group Work ◽

Class Group ◽

Team Formation

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Stochastic H∞ Robust Decentralized Tracking Control of Large-Scale Team Formation UAV Network System with Time-Varying Delay and Packet Dropout under Interconnected Couplings and Wiener Fluctuations

IEEE Access ◽

10.1109/access.2021.3065127 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Min-Yen Lee ◽

Bor-Sen Chen ◽

Cheng-Yu Tsai ◽

Chih-Lyang Hwang

Keyword(s):

Tracking Control ◽

Large Scale ◽

Team Formation ◽

Packet Dropout ◽

Network System ◽

Time Varying ◽

Time Varying Delay ◽

Varying Delay

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Analysis on Professional Team Formation for Chemical Firefighting Based on Petrochemical Fire Treatment in A Certain City

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/332/2/022064 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 332 ◽

pp. 022064

Author(s):

Guoliang Zhang ◽

Changhai Li ◽

Shouxiang Lu

Keyword(s):

Team Formation

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Sixteen Months “From Square One”: The Process of Forming an Interprofessional Clinical Teaching Team

Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education ◽

10.22230/jripe.2015v5n2a191 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Eileen M. McKinlay ◽

Peter A Gallagher ◽

Lesley A Gray ◽

Christine L Wilson ◽

Susan R Pullon

Keyword(s):

Focus Groups ◽

Interprofessional Education ◽

Clinical Teaching ◽

Shared Vision ◽

Team Formation ◽

Teacher Interviews ◽

Educational Preparation ◽

Trust Development ◽

Study Approach ◽

Teaching Team

Background: Descriptions of interprofessional education (IPE) programs and teacher competencies exist, but limited research has been undertaken about the process of IPE teaching team formation. This research project examined how pedagogically naïve clinicians of different disciplines initially formed an IPE teaching team.Methods and Findings: A case study approach was undertaken with data collected over the first sixteen months of an IPE program. Data included: audio recordings, transcripts, and field notes from nine individual teacher interviews, two teaching team focus groups, five student focus groups, and eight summary reports. Data analysis using a grounded theory constant comparison approach revealed themes relating to the formation, development, and evolving sophistication of the teaching team from functioning, to co-ordinating, to co-operating, and finally to collaborating. These stages were influenced by four external factors: remote rural context, Hauora Māori principles, personal attributes, and teacher development.Conclusions: Formation of interprofessional clinical teaching teams requires educational preparation, time learning to work with each other, and trust development, with a number of local contextual factors influencing this process. Teaching team formation paralleled Wegner’s Community of Practice model where shared vision supported the adoption of an increasingly complex IPE pedagogy.

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The Ocean Run: Stage, Cast, and Performance in a Public Park Basketball Scene

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography ◽

10.1177/0891241616639641 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 28-59 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Michael DeLand

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Public Life ◽

Practical Work ◽

Personal Relationships ◽

Team Formation ◽

Public Park ◽

Personal Meanings ◽

Basketball Game ◽

Santa Monica ◽

And Performance

This article investigates the production and re-production of a recurring pickup basketball game at a public park in Santa Monica, California. I argue that it is best understood as a recurring “scene”—an ecologically shaped, biographically significant, interactionally accomplished, and narratively organized pattern of social life—colloquially known as the “Ocean Run.” Drawing on Kenneth Burke’s dramatism, I suggest that the scene is constituted by the interrelation of the park’s socioecological landscape (“stage”), the diverse personal meanings that players construct through their participation (“cast”), and the practical work of re-creating the scene through situated interactions (“performance”). The park stage facilitates a sense of intimacy for players with very different personal relationships to each other and to the scene. Those players then actively mix themselves up, re-creating the scene through an “improvisational” style of team formation. Place, people, and action are dialectically related in the patterning of public life. This method of analysis is replicable in a wide variety of public scenes and sets up concrete grounds for comparison and theoretical generalizability.

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