...Victoria H. Batt-Rawden; Laura E.M. Traavik Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore what contributes to egalitarian teams and facilitates for team learning in professional service teams. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study, including 41 in-depth interviews (n...

... egalitarianism and the moderating role of environmental hardship. In Part II, the authors provide an empirical evaluation of the conceptual model presented in Part I. Design/methodology/approach Data was gathered on 4,637 military personnel nested in 143 ongoing teams. Multiple regression analysis was used...

... increased team egalitarianism (interactional equality). Findings The study is presented in two parts. Part 1 reviews the literature and builds the theoretical arguments for the conceptual model, while Part 2 empirically examines the model on a sample of military teams. In Part 1, the authors propose...