Punctuated Equilibrium and Linear Progression: Toward a New Understanding of Group Development
研究提出将间断平衡模型与整合模型视为互补而非竞争，通过分析25个模拟项目团队的数据，发现时间意识、任务与节奏活动符合间断平衡模型，而任务与社会情感维度的结构与过程变化符合整合模型。
This study proposes gaining a new understanding of group development by considering the integrative and the punctuated equilibrium models of group development as complementary rather than competing. We hypothesized that we would observe both punctuated equilibrium and linear progression in content-analyzed data from 25 simulated project teams, albeit on different dimensions. We predicted changes in time awareness and in task and pacing activity in line with the punctuated equilibrium model and changes in structure and process on task and socioemotional dimensions in line with the integrative model. Results partially supported predictions for both models.