Team performance management: a review and look forward

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to provide the Team Performance Management (TPM) journal readership with a review of the journal since its inception in 1995, tracing the pattern of articles published since then. To give an overview of the processes and procedures now in operation and present the incoming editors' future vision of the journal.

Design/methodology/approach

Each of the 266 articles published in the journal between 1995 and 2006 were analysed briefly to identify interesting trends or patterns.

Findings

The largest number of articles have been published by authors from the USA (representing 45 per cent of the total number of articles published), although 28 countries are represented. The majority of articles have an academic first author (69 per cent). A significant proportion of articles are sole authored (47 per cent), although there is a slight trend towards multiple authors. Most authors (87 per cent) have only published once in the journal and the majority of articles (55 per cent) have been classified as research papers. The most popular article has achieved 21,651 downloads.

Research limitations/implications

This was never intended to be a rigorous statistical analysis, but rather to present a simple overview and review of the last 12 years' articles published in the journal. For simplicity, only the first authors were used for the analysis, which may have caused a slight bias in the findings.

Practical implications

A better understanding of the patterns and trends of articles will help the editors to shape the future of the journal. It is also hoped that it will help the readership to gain an improved understanding of and increased interest in the journal's past, present and future.

Originality/value

Pulling together information from many different sources into one article and providing the first comprehensive review of the articles published in TPM in the last 12 years, since its launch.

Citation

Lettice, F. and McCracken, M. (2007), "Team performance management: a review and look forward", Team Performance Management, Vol. 13 No. 5/6, pp. 148-159. https://doi.org/10.1108/13527590710831855