... scholar Richard Hackman put it, allocating nine women to be pregnant for a month each does not produce a baby – there are clearly tasks that do not require teamwork (Hackman, 2004). However, we believe that abolishing team working by designing work tasks for individuals is far from being the only...

...@ing.uc3m.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Team working Knowledge management In contrast to the traditional emphasis on external factors to explain organizational success (Porter, 1985), recent strategic management literature has focused on internal resources (Miller and Shamsie...