Conference theme and scope

Over the past decades, team cognition has proven to be essential for understanding team functioning, particularly in complex and challenging contexts (DeChurch & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). In environments where team members have to adapt regularly to changing environmental contingencies, team cognition is likely to be characterized as an unfolding process, as teams adapt their cognitive structures to the changing demands of their task environments (Uitdewilligen, Waller, & Pitariu, 2013). However, although recent theorizing emphasizes the dynamic nature of team cognition (Rico et al., 2008; Kozlowski & Chao, 2013) empirical studies have predominantly embraced a static approach in which teams’ cognitive structures and process are operationalized as stable characteristics. This meeting aims at filling this gap by providing a forum to discuss the dynamics of team cognition and adaptation.

Submissions to the Small Group Meeting may include but are not limited to: compilation and composition emergence, flux and adaptation, non-routine events, shared cognition emergence, collective sensemaking, team reflexivity, team metacognition, and team learning. Contributions may report original empirical research, theoretical development, a review, or methodological advancements.

Submissions

Participants are asked to submit an abstract with a maximum of 500 words (excl. references) to j.m.p.gevers@tue.nl by 30 April 2014.

Participants will be notified regarding acceptance by 30 May 2014.

After acceptance of the abstracts, participants need to submit a full paper by 1 October 2014.

The paper should be formatted according to APA 6th edition. Submitters will be required to provide full name, position, institution, discipline, and contact information for all authors.

EJWOP SPECIAL ISSUE 

Participants are kindly requested to consider submitting their contribution to our special issue on “Dynamics of team adaptation and team cognition” in European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.

This would require a full paper submission to j.m.p.gevers@tue.nl by 28 April 2014. For more information on the special issue, see: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/pewocfp.pdf.