Purpose – Whereas motivation and coordination losses in teams have been investigated for quite some time, systematic research on performance gains in teams (often called “synergetic effects”) only emerged recently. The purpose of the present paper is to clarify the concept of process gains...

Purpose – Social support from fellow team members has been neglected as a unique source of process gains in teams. This paper seeks to introduce the Model of Social Support within Teams (MSST) that explicates testable hypotheses on effects of team partners' affective and task‐related support...

Abstract Angesichts steigender Globalisierungstendenzen finden sich immer häufiger „virtuelle“ Teams in Unternehmen, in denen Teammitglieder unter Rückgriff auf moderne Kommunikationsmedien von unterschiedlichen Standorten aus kooperieren um die Teamziele zu erreichen. Bisher gibt es noch...

Purpose: How diversity in management boards affects employer attractiveness has yet to be fully clarified. This paper aims to contrast the two main theoretical rationales – similarity attraction and diversity attraction – and examines whether potential employees are more attracted to an...