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A Study of Structural Antecedents of Product Development Teams’ Flexibility on Small and Large Teams

Authors : K. Srikanth, K. B. Akhilesh

Published in: Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Abstract

In a changing and dynamic environment, product development (PD) activity has increasingly become team driven to achieve higher performance. Structural practices followed by PD teams are an important source for achieving flexibility. Understanding the role of antecedents that govern these structural practices would be helpful in increasing team flexibility. This chapter explores the nature of two such antecedents – participation and control (PAC) and time-bound formalization (TBF), which were derived as a part of larger study involving 108 PD teams, both small and large. Interestingly, PAC and TBF did not show any significant difference across small and large teams.

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Metadata
Title
A Study of Structural Antecedents of Product Development Teams’ Flexibility on Small and Large Teams
Authors
K. Srikanth
K. B. Akhilesh
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer India
Book
Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Print ISBN: 978-81-322-0745-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-81-322-0746-7

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0746-7_69