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Us and Them: Conflict, Collaboration, and the Discursive Negotiation of Multi…
This article explores the conflict that emerged during the work of university researchers, education consultants, and district multishareholder teams engaged in a partnership for school reform. The authors draw on analysis of naturally occurring talk and other data collected over 2 years to explore the presence of conflict between a multishareholder team and a group of consultants during a 4-da…
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- Vol. 39, No. 4, August 2008. Page 397-437
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Effects of Training on Idea Generation in Groups
This study examined the effects of training and sequence of nominal and interactive groups on idea generation. Participants in groups of three or four were either trained in idea generation skills or were simply engaged in an equivalent amount of practice. They subsequently were asked to brainstorm in either an alone-to-group or a group-to-alone sequence. Training had a significant positive eff…
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- Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2008. Page 523-541
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The ASA Framework: A Field Study of Group Personality Composition and Group P…
A theoretical model integrating Schneider's Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) framework, group personality composition, and group performance is presented. The proposed model focuses on three operationalizations of group composition based on the Big Five personality traits. This model suggests that for certain types of teams group minimum scores vary more than group mean scores, resulting in…
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- Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2008. Page 616-635
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Examining Team Planning Through an Episodic Lens: Effects of Deliberate, Cont…
Three types of team planning processes differing in terms of timing and adaptation capacity are investigated. Deliberate planning and contingency planning occur during team transition phases; deliberate planning specifies a primary course of action whereas contingency planning specifies backup plans. Reactive adjustment is planning that occurs during the action phase when teams adapt plans to a…
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- Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2008. Page 542-568
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The Effects of Status Violations on Hierarchy and Influence in Groups
In an initial test of Wagner's (1988) status violation theory, we examine how status violations, or the failure to behave in accord with the expectations attached to a person's status position in a group, may reduce the person's status position. Status violations highlight the underlying normative order that forms the group's expectations regarding appropriate status-related behaviors. Status v…
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- Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2008. Page 569-587
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Development of Cognitive and Affective Trust in Teams: A Longitudinal Study
The present research examines the development of two dimensions of trust, cognitive and affective, in student project teams over the course of a semester. Empirical examination of the evolution of multidimensional trust and its unique antecedents was explored. The results show that early trust emerges as a one-dimensional factor early in the life span of a team; cognitive and affective trust em…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 746-769
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Mechanisms Underlying Nationality-Based Discrimination in Teams: A Quasi-Expe…
This study examines mechanisms underlying nationality-based discrimination from two different perspectives: social psychology and microeconomics. The authors studied 91 teams in a binational setting that were offered a new team member. National composition of the team and nationality of the new member were manipulated. Overall, the study showed that discrimination based on nationality does exis…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 643-672
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The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Relationship Be…
The aim of this research is to examine the role of information and communication technologies in the relationship between group effectiveness and group potency changes. A laboratory experiment compared 44 groups of four members, working in two communication media—face-to-face condition and computer-mediated communication (CMC). Groups developed a project during 4 weekly meetings during a 1-mont…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 728-745
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Dueling Narratives: How Peer Leaders Use Narrative to Frame Meaning in Commun…
This article looks at leadership in interorganizational peer-led teams: people from different backgrounds and organizations who are at comparable hierarchical levels with the leader. It also looks at the challenges of leading such a group to a new model of thinking in which the traditionally dominant frame is no longer valid. This research, reporting on observations of 118 child and family team…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 706-727
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Reactions to Social Dilemmas as a Function of Group Identity, Rational Calcul…
A group identification approach to social dilemmas is proposed, and the results of three studies are presented. Study 1 found that members of real groups were more cooperative than members of contrived groups and that this effect was mediated by group identification. Study 2 showed that participants were more cooperative when their in-group was in the majority and that this effect was moderated…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 673-705
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Evaluation Concerns and the Köhler Effect: The Impact of Physical Presence o…
This study examined whether increasing evaluation concerns would increase the magnitude of the Köhler effect (i.e., one type of motivation gain that has been documented to occur in small groups). Evaluation concerns were manipulated by having participants work in the physical presence or virtual presence of their coworker. As anticipated, motivation gains were significantly greater for particip…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 795-812
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Structuring Asynchronous Discussion Groups by Introducing Roles: Do Students …
This study focused on the introduction of roles as a scripting tool in asynchronous text-based discussion groups. Five roles were selected: source searcher, theoretician, summarizer, moderator, and starter. Because existing research on role assignment often neglects to check whether the role assignment is successful, the main goal was to examine to what extent the participants enacted assigned …
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 770-794
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HOW POLICY-MAKERS (REALLY) UNDERSTAND GLOBALIZATION: THE INTERNAL ARCHITECTUR…
There is a growing acceptance in the literature of a potentially significant causal role for ideas about globalization in shaping the trajectory of policy and institutional reform in contemporary Europe. Yet we still know remarkably little about policy-makers' understandings of globalization, save those they choose to declare publicly. This paper contributes to the important task of operational…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 903–927, December 2010
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THE POLITICS OF PARTNERSHIPS: A STUDY OF POLICE AND HOUSING COLLABORATION TO …
This paper draws on the findings from a research project on partnership arrangements between the police and housing departments on three Australian public housing estates to tackle problems associated with illicit drug activity and anti-social behaviour (ASB). The analysis focused on the setting up of the partnerships and the interactions that followed from these institutional arrangements. The…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 928–942, December 2010
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TRANSLATING AGENCY REFORM THROUGH DURABLE RHETORICAL STYLES: COMPARING OFFICI…
This article directs attention to the role of ideational variables in shaping public management reform initiatives. It considers the contribution of both endogenous rhetorical styles and exogenous international fashions in explaining official agency talk in consensus and adversarial contexts. Departing from an earlier observation that convergence in talk across contexts is more likely than conv…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 943–959, December 2010
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LEADERISM: AN EVOLUTION OF MANAGERIALISM IN UK PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
This paper argues that ‘leaderism’– as an emerging set of beliefs that frames and justifies certain innovatory changes in contemporary organizational and managerial practice – is a development of managerialism that has been utilized and applied within the policy discourse of public service reform in the UK. The paper suggests that ‘leaderism’ is an evolution of entrepreneurial and cultural mana…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 960–978, December 2010
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AN EXPLORATION OF WHY PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS ‘INGEST’ INNOVATIONS
Organizational change sometimes occurs as organizations ‘ingest’ innovations from without. This process represents a vital form of organizational learning and adaptation to the external environment. This study seeks to understand the factors that predict the adoption of Foreign Professional Specialty Occupation Visas, or H-1B visas, by Texas public school districts. The use of H-1B visas to hir…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 979–998, December 2010
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STRUGGLING WITH AMBIGUITY: PUBLIC MANAGERS AS USERS OF NPM-ORIENTED MANAGEMEN…
Improving public sector performance involves both ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’ problems. With the emphasis on the ‘doing’ problem, this study examines public managers as users of management instruments (MI) in attempts to improve the performance of public services. The article explores uses of three MIs in Finnish local government by using the conceptual framework of ambiguity. The article demonstrate…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 999–1024, December 2010
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BEWARE OF MANAGERS NOT BEARING GIFTS: HOW MANAGEMENT CAPACITY AUGMENTS THE IM…
Networks and managing in the network have been central concerns of public management scholars for years (Provan and Milward 1991; O’Toole 1997; Agranoff and McGuire 2003; Herranz 2008). The literature has investigated the extent of networks (Hall and O’Toole 2004), the appropriate way to measure networks and networking behaviour (McGuire 2002; Meier and O’Toole 2005), and the role that networki…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 1025–1044, December 2010
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ACTING DISCURSIVELY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UK ORGANIC FOOD AND FARMING POLICY NE…
This paper documents the early evolution of UK organic food and farming policy networks and locates this empirical focus in a theoretical context concerned with understanding the contemporary policy-making process. While policy networks have emerged as a widely acknowledged empirical manifestation of governance, debate continues as to the concept's explanatory utility and usefulness in situatio…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 1045–1062, December 2010
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