Distribution of Knowledge, Group Network Structure, and Group Performance
研究MBA游戏团队中知识分布和群体网络结构对绩效的影响，发现知识广泛分布的团队表现更好，但专家团队或混合团队在去中心化网络结构下优势消失。
This study investigates the effect of knowledge distribution and group structure on performance in MBA game teams. We found that group performance was contingent on the distribution of knowledge within the group and networks of social relationships among group members. Studying 39 teams of MBA students in two management simulation games, we found that, in general, groups that had broadly distributed knowledge, i.e., groups made up of members who had general knowledge, outperformed groups that had knowledge concentrated in different members, i.e., groups made up of members who had specialized or both specialized and general knowledge. However, the advantage that the former enjoyed over the latter disappeared when groups of specialists or mixed groups had decentralized network structures.