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Martin Engeler
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PublicationInternational experiential diversity and performance at project organizations: The case of national football teamsThis paper sheds further light on the link between diversity configurations in project teams and team performance. The paper draws upon detailed player background profiles and team performance data from the FIFA World Cup 2006, including profiles of the 736 players who participated in the tournament and performance data from the 64 matches played. Our findings highlight the need to carefully manage experiential diversity in project team settings in order to benefit from access to diverse tacit resources while at the same time avoiding that the integrative capacities of teams become overstretched. At the same time, we find little support for the notion that longevity of team membership is associated with higher performance in project teams. We derive implications for project team composition practices and discuss alternative interpretations of our findingsType: journal articleJournal: Sport, Business and ManagementVolume: 1Issue: 3
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PublicationNewcomers' international experience backgrounds and contributions to team performanceThis paper examines the relationship between new team members' international experience backgrounds and subsequent contributions to team performance at the first year of team membership. It is argued, that individuals' experiential backgrounds can range from narrow careers in single national contexts to broad careers in multiple international settings, with different developmental effects on newcomers' knowledge, competencies, and subsequent potentials to successfully contribute to team performance. Importantly, the experiential composition of the entire team moderates these relationships in such a way that newcomers' broad international backgrounds constitute valuable inputs of new knowledge and perspectives in experientially homogeneous and long tenured teams. A set of hypotheses was tested on a longitudinal multilevel dataset from seven consecutive seasons of German Bundesliga football (2005-2012) and provided support for our predictions. Implications of these findings are discussed together with future research directions.Type: conference paper
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PublicationComposing teams to optimize the benefits of international experience diversity( 2012-08-05)This paper contributes to a better understanding of the effects of experiential diversity in teams. Specifically, the link between diversity in team members' international experience backgrounds and team performance is examined from an information processing perspective. This paper addresses the conditions under which teams optimize the benefits of a greater pool of knowledge and perspectives at their disposal. A set of four hypotheses is developed and tested on a longitudinal dataset drawn from professional soccer teams in the German Bundesliga over a seven-year period. Findings show that a diverse international experience base is positively associated with team performance. This relationship is positively moderated by indicators of experiential team composition and managerial tenure. Specifically, performance gains of increasing international experience diversity are larger the more a team consists of members experienced in high quality settings, a team consists of members with narrow individual experience backgrounds, and a team is led by a longer tenured coach. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed together with future research directions.Type: conference paper
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PublicationThe impact of experience and experiential diversity on the performance of national football teams( 2009-08-10)This paper investigates the extent to which the performance of national football teams can be predicted by the experiential configurations of team members. We draw upon a database that contains performance data from the 64 matches at the FIFA World Cup 2006 and detailed biographical and career profiles of the 736 players who participated in the tournament. Our findings reveal little support for the notion that shared team experience is associated with higher performance of national teams, in contrast to the findings of previous research pertaining to club teams. In addition, our findings highlight the need to carefully manage experiential diversity in short-run performance settings in order to benefit from access to diverse tacit resources while at the same time avoiding that the integrative capacities of teams become overstretched.Type: conference paper
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PublicationType: working paper