Theoretical Foundations: The Collaborative Context

Following the introduction of the organizational context given for the present thesis, an introduction of relevant concepts associated with the context of teams and collaboration for the current research setting, namely aspects of UET, team cognition, diversity and ambidexterity, are provided in the present chapter. Research findings suggest that to understand and assess a team’s performance, it is relevant to understand a team’s idiosyncrasies as well as to carefully chose the related constructs serving to assess its actions. Consequently, UET, as the theoretical foundation to assess TMT teamwork is introduced in section 3.1.