Issues in Distributed Team Performance

Stagl, Salas, Rosen, Priest, Burke, Goodwin, and Johnston review a series of factors determining the effectiveness of distributed team performance, thereby providing an effective overview of existing literature, particularly at the intrapersonal and interpersonal levels. Although the effort to provide guidelines for future research in the form of 14 propositions is less effective than might have been hoped, there is sufficient focus to suggest fruitful areas for future inquiry. The exploration of their work suggests that it would prove valuable to both scholars and practitioners if greater attention were concentrated on the interactive effects of distributed teams and organizational-level phenomena.