The impact of team familiarity and team leader experience on team coordination errors: A panel analysis of professional basketball teams |
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| Authors: | Jost Sieweke Bin Zhao |
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| Institution: | 1. Management and Organization Studies, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, Heinrich‐Heine University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;2. Management and Organization Studies, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada |
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| Abstract: | To explore the dynamics involved in team coordination, we examine the impact of team familiarity and team leader experience on team coordination errors (TCEs). We argue that team familiarity has a U‐shaped effect on TCEs. We study the moderating effects of team leader prior experience and team leader team‐specific experience on the association between team familiarity and TCEs. We use panel data on teams from the National Basketball Association to test the hypotheses. Our findings support the U‐shaped relationship between team familiarity and TCEs and the moderating effect of team leader team‐specific experience on this relationship. The paper advances research on errors in organizations by analyzing the antecedents of TCEs, so far an underexplored empirical phenomenon. Moreover, it contributes to research on coordination in teams by empirically examining the interplay between formal and informal coordination mechanisms. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | coordination error team familiarity team leader |
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