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The composition and formation of effective teams: computer science meets organizational psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2018

Ewa Andrejczuk ,
Rita Berger ,
Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar ,
Carles Sierra  and
Víctor Marín-Puchades
Ewa Andrejczuk
Affiliation:
IIIA-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain e-mail: ewa@iiia.csic.es, jar@iiia.csic.es, sierra@iiia.csic.es Change Management Tool S.L., Passeig de Gràcia, 47, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
Rita Berger
Affiliation:
University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron, 08035 Barcelona, Spain e-mail: ritaberger@ub.edu, vmarinpu7@alumnes.ub.edu
Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
Affiliation:
IIIA-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain e-mail: ewa@iiia.csic.es, jar@iiia.csic.es, sierra@iiia.csic.es
Carles Sierra
Affiliation:
IIIA-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain e-mail: ewa@iiia.csic.es, jar@iiia.csic.es, sierra@iiia.csic.es
Víctor Marín-Puchades
Affiliation:
University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron, 08035 Barcelona, Spain e-mail: ritaberger@ub.edu, vmarinpu7@alumnes.ub.edu
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Abstract

Nowadays the composition and formation of effective teams is highly important for both companies to assure their competitiveness and for a wide range of emerging applications exploiting multiagent collaboration (e.g. crowdsourcing, human-agent collaborations). The aim of this article is to provide an integrative perspective on team composition, team formation, and their relationship with team performance. Thus, we review the contributions in both the computer science literature and the organizational psychology literature dealing with these topics. Our purpose is twofold. First, we aim at identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the contributions made by these two diverse bodies of research. Second, we aim at identifying cross-fertilization opportunities that help both disciplines benefit from one another. Given the volume of existing literature, our review is not intended to be exhaustive. Instead, we have preferred to focus on the most significant contributions in both fields together with recent contributions that break new ground to spur innovative research.

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Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 33 , 2018 , e17
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© Cambridge University Press, 2018 

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