Research Contributions, Conclusion and Outlook

To begin, the present research contributes to a number of conceptual and theoretical issues, especially in terms of the conceptual development and empirical application of TMC: The present thesis analyzed existing TMC models and their evolution and conceptualized a merged own model which was then put to empirical test, hence providing both a conceptual enhancement as well as empirical test of a TMC model, which are yet comparatively rare to be found with the exception of medical or military contexts. More importantly, new contextual and conceptual terrain was entered by the conceptual integration and empirical confirmation of ambidexterity explicitly manifested as knowledge-seeking and sharing behaviors in both processes and indirectly in the emergent states of TMC. By analyzing a HRO TMT’s TMC am empirical contribution to opening the black box of UE team cognition was made in a naturalistic context, which furthermore represents a nearly untouched application context of UE research.