Alliance management teams and entrainment: Sharing temporal mental models
研究提出，战略联盟管理团队若能共享关于同步（如周期、节奏、时间取向）的时间心理模型，将有助于提升团队效能，更好地应对联盟中的同步问题。
Creating and administrating successful strategic alliances poses a significant challenge to interorganizational managerial teams. Using shared mental model theory as a framework, we propose that the effectiveness of these managerial teams can be increased if the team shares a common temporal mental model with regard to the alliance. Specifically, a shared mental model in terms of the elements of entrainment (e.g. cycle, pace, time orientation) will allow team members to actively assess and better manage entrainment issues which we suggest are a crucial component of strategic alliances, although not one that has been studied to a great extent.