The Emerald Handbook of Group and Team Communication Research considers the current research of group communication scholars, provides an overview of major foci in the discipline, and points toward possible trajectories for future scholarship. It establishes group communication's central role...

1. Designing for drift : planning ethnographic qualitative research on groups / Michael G. Pratt and Najung Kim -- 2. Experimental designs for research on small groups : the five Ps / Patrick R. Laughlin -- 3. Running laboratory experiments with groups / Gwen M. Wittenbaum -- 4. Group research...