Teams and their Context: Moving the Team Discussion Beyond Existing Dichotomies
批评了现有将团队分为“社会技术型”和“日本型”的二分法，指出其混淆了团队特征与情境因素，并提出一个分析框架来理解情境因素如何影响工作与组织设计。
The dichotomies which have been proposed to distinguish between what can be labelled ‘sociotechnical’ and ‘Japanese’ teams oversimplify the ‘team discussion’. They combine team characteristics and contextual factors which should be separated, contain biases, and have an infirm basis. As an alternative we propose an analytical framework to improve our theoretical understanding of how relevant contextual factors impact the design of jobs and organizations