The Partners of My Partners: Shared Collaborative Experience and Team Performance in Surgical Teams.

ABSTRACT: When teams in organizations are assembled to perform contingent tasks, team members carry with them experiences of prior interaction with partners in different teams. Focal team members share collaborative experiences to the extent that they worked with common external prior partners. Extending current research on team effectiveness, we investigate how shared collaborative experience (SCE) affects team performance. Consistent with the established understanding of team processes as carrying both a teamwork and a taskwork component, we conceptualize SCE as having two distinct dimensions that we call SCE extent and SCE diversity. We posit that high SCE extent increases the ability of teams to refine their teamwork processes, increasing their performance through enhanced coordination and refle

SUBMITTER: Tonellato M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12496028 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature