Teamwork Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives [Hardcover]

There are many walks of life in which teamwork is found and in which, by common consent, it could be better. Yet even the most basic questions about teams remain unresolved. What makes a group of individuals a team? Does teamwork involve a special type of reasoning? What makes teams successful? How do we learn to be team players? This volume brings together, for the first time, contemporary research from across the social sciences, addressing such questions from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives.Introduction: Teamwork in Theory and in Practice; N.Gold A Theoretical Framework for the Understanding of Teams; M.Gilbert Cognitive Cooperation: When the Going Gets Tough, Think as a Group; D.Sloan Wilson, J.Timmel & R.R.Miller Cooperation, Risk and the Evolution of Teamwork; J.Lazarus & P.Andras Evolution of Teams; D.P.Myatt & C.Wallace Cooperation and Communication: Group Identity or Social Norms?; C.Bicchieri The Psychology of Effective Teamworking; C.Borrill & M.West Teams over Time: A Logical Perspective; W.van der Hoek, M.Pauly & M.Wooldridge The Logic of Team Reasoning; R.Sugden Rationality, Cooperation and Mindreading; S.Hurley Evolution of Cooperation Without Awareness in Minimal Social Situations; A.M.Colman Learning in Robot Teams; J.Wyatt, Y.Matsumura & M.Todd

'The general standard of the collection is high...the breadth of material covered and overall quality make this a very worthwhile collection for anyone interested in teamwork.' - Nicholas Bardsley, Economics and Philosophy

PATER ANDRAS Lecturer in the School of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle, UKCRISTINA BICCHIERI Professor of Philosophy and Decision Sciences and Director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at the University of Pennsylvania, USACAROL BORRILL Senior Lecturer in Work and Organisational Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, UKANDREW M. COLMAN Professor of Psychology, University of Leicester, UKMARAGRlól