Groups and technology current themes and future directions

Abstract

This concluding chapter of Volume 3 of Research in Managing Groups and Teams: Technology identifies themes in research on groups and technology represented in the volume. The chapter also discusses the implications of changes in group structures and processes enabled by technology for four fundamental features of groups: interdependence, social identity, embeddedness, and temporal dynamics. The chapter argues that these features will continue to be defining characteristics of groups but that new technologies will occasion more variation on these features. The chapter concludes with a discussion of future research on groups and technology that is likely to be especially fruitful.

Citation

Argote, L. (2000), "Groups and technology current themes and future directions", Neale, M.A. and Mannix, E.A. (Ed.) Research on Managing Groups and Teams (Research on Managing Groups and Teams, Vol. 3), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 283-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1534-0856(00)03014-0