Understanding Team Cognition: The Shift to Cognitive Similarity Configurations

This commentary focuses on S. A. McComb's chapter on the process of mental model convergence and provides guidance for advancing this research stream. McComb's chapter highlights many of the theoretical and methodological challenges that have plagued the study of cognition in teams. This c...

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Published inMulti-Level Issues in Organizations and Time Vol. 6; pp. 159 - 174
Main Authors Rentsch, Joan R, Small, Erika E
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Emerald Group Publishing Limited 17.07.2007
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Summary:This commentary focuses on S. A. McComb's chapter on the process of mental model convergence and provides guidance for advancing this research stream. McComb's chapter highlights many of the theoretical and methodological challenges that have plagued the study of cognition in teams. This commentary addresses those challenges and offers suggestions for the next steps in this field. Specifically, it considers the complex and abstract nature of team cognition and offers an elaborated model for understanding cognitive similarity that includes cognitive similarity configurations.
ISBN:0762314346
9780762314348
ISSN:1475-9144
DOI:10.1016/S1475-9144(07)06007-9