ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4339-8616
(2015):
The History of Teamwork’s Societal Diffusion. A Multi-Method Review.
In: Small Group Research, Vol. 46, No. 6: pp. 589-622
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Abstract
In the literature, the notion of the ever-growing prevalence of teamwork is dominating. First, has there indeed been a steadily increasing trajectory of the societal diffusion of and academic research on teamwork? If so, what have the main drivers of this trajectory been? In this review, we apply a multi-method approach to examine these questions. Specifically, we combine the established bibliometric method of scholarly article counts with the innovative approach of culturomics that allows the content analysis of a literature corpus spanning millions of books, both popular and scholarly. The results show that although academic research on teamwork has grown constantly and has shown a sharp increase over the past 40 years, the societal diffusion of teamwork, as indicated through the culturomics approach, actually followed a volatile trend in the past century. Certain large-scale events and developments, such as war, may serve as an explanation for these changing trends.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Form of publication: | Publisher's Version |
Faculties: | Munich School of Management > Institute for Leadership and Organization |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-59043-6 |
ISSN: | 1046-4964 |
Alliance/National Licence: | This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 59043 |
Date Deposited: | 12. Nov 2018, 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 10. Aug 2023, 06:05 |