Team Knowledge Networks, Task Dependencies and Coordination: Preliminary Findings from Software Teams

dc.contributor.author Espinosa, J. Alberto
dc.contributor.author Clark, Mark
dc.contributor.author Nordbäck, Emma
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-24T17:21:24Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-24T17:21:24Z
dc.date.issued 2022-01-04
dc.description.abstract Today’s work increasingly involves teams with fluid boundaries, and members working on multiple projects at a time. To understand how work is effectively coordinated in such complex organizations, we focus on the role of a company’s task dependency network. We integrate three research streams – coordination, team knowledge and social networks to conceptualize multiteam work as a large collaboration with members in multiple functional roles and areas of expertise, with complex task dependency relationships, operating as a coherent and well-coordinated knowledge network. Through this integration and empirical test of associated hypotheses with data from a European software company, our study illustrates how to represent multiple relationships in one complex multiplex network. This extends our understanding of how the various knowledge relationships and individual attribute differences influence the effective coordination in collaborative software development work. We address the concepts of awareness and shared familiarity and how they affect coordination, while keeping our focus on illustrating the power of network analytics to gain nuanced insights into the drivers of effective coordination.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2022.074
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/79404
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Distributed Collaboration and Telework in Organizations and Networks
dc.subject coordination
dc.subject knowledge networks
dc.subject task dependencies
dc.subject team knowledge
dc.title Team Knowledge Networks, Task Dependencies and Coordination: Preliminary Findings from Software Teams
dc.type.dcmi text
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