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A review and theoretical framework for understanding external team contexts.

Robert E Ployhart¹, Donald J Dj Schepker¹, Lynn A McFarland¹

¹Management Department.

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|December 30, 2021

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This study presents a new framework for understanding external team contexts. It defines context using three dimensions: munificence, temporal dynamism, and spatial variability, offering a unified approach to team research.

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Area of Science:

Organizational Psychology
Team Dynamics
Multilevel Systems

Background:

External team contexts significantly influence team functioning.
Existing research often lacks a unified framework to categorize these contexts.
Understanding contextual influences is crucial for advancing team theory and practice.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a theoretical framework for defining the nature, structure, and function of external team contexts.
To propose three continuous dimensions—munificence, temporal dynamism, and spatial variability—for understanding contextual complexity.
To integrate diverse research on team contexts into a parsimonious, precise, and falsifiable model.

Main Methods:

Theoretical framework development.
Definition of external team context and its key dimensions.
Integration of existing literature across multiple disciplines and levels.

Main Results:

A novel framework defining external team context through munificence, temporal dynamism, and spatial variability.
Contextual complexity is posited as a function of these three dimensions.
The framework provides a unified approach to understanding discrete contextual stimuli, events, and features.

Conclusions:

The proposed framework offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to studying external team contexts.
It reconciles diverse research strands and provides a basis for future empirical research and practical applications.
A preliminary measure is provided to facilitate the application and testing of the framework.