Taking Teams Seriously in the Co-creation of Firms and Economic Agency
基于对四家丹麦制造企业的实地研究，发现企业作为“团队共同体”具有高度动态性，团队通过重组、跨部门协作和权力再分配影响企业演化，挑战了现有团队研究与企业理论。
In this paper it is suggested that it is time to take the agency of teams seriously. Whereas the debate has previously focused on how firms may function more effectively by using team-based work organization, our aim here is to discuss and understand how teams affect the evolutionary dynamic of companies. Fieldwork in four Danish manufacturing companies helped us discover that firms as ‘communities of teams’ are highly dynamic entities with complex layers of different team forms that operate, innovate and improve by constantly recombining, collaborating across organizational divisions and redistributing authority, thereby challenging some of the existing ‘idioms’ of team research and theories of the firm. Building on these findings, we rethink research on teams by re-describing the evolutionary dynamics of firms and call for new comparative research.