Team learning confers benefits to individuals, groups, and organizations.
Team Effectiveness¶
Team learning has been found to be a significant predictor of team performance (Wiese & Burke, 2019).
Members of team perceive team learning as important for performance (Savelsbergh et al., 2010).
In interdisciplinary teams, learning is linked to the perceived effectiveness of collaborations (Lorenzetti et al., 2022).
Motivation¶
The opportunity to learn itself motivates researchers to participate in interdisciplinary collaborations (Lotrecchiano et al., 2023; Tkachenko & Ardichvili, 2020).
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