Contributions

  • Harvard Business School - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

8,750 words, Guess

Page Count

35 pages

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Description

In settings ranging from product development to service delivery, fluid teams of individuals with different sets of experience are tasked with projects that are critical to their organization's success. Although building teams from individuals with different prior experience is increasingly necessary, prior work examining the relationship between experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. We hypothesize that team familiarity - team members' prior experience working with one another - is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the potential benefits of variation in team member experience by alleviating coordination problems that such variation may create. In team familiarity, our paper identifies one mechanism for capturing the performance benefits of variation in experience and provides insight into how the broader management of experience accumulation affects team performance.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 09-145

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