How Configurations of Novelty, Team Structure, and the Decision-Making Style influence Team Collaboration Quality

Team breakups are a principal reason for new firm failure. One construct central to recent thinking on well-collaboration teams is Hoegl and Gemuenden's (2001) teamwork quality (TWQ) construct. This study scrutinizes antecedents and environmental as well as structural effects on TWQ, i.e. the decision making style preference for embracing vs. overcoming contingencies (cf. Brettel et al., 2012) and two main conditions, the number of defined roles...