Teamwork

There are many walks of life in which teamwork is found and in which, by common consent, it could be better. Yet even the most basic questions about teams remain unresolved. What makes a group of individuals a team? Does teamwork involve a special type of reasoning? What makes teams successful? How do we learn to be team players? This volume brings together, for the first time, contemporary research from across the social sciences, addressing such questions from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives.

'The general standard of the collection is high...the breadth of material covered and overall quality make this a very worthwhile collection for anyone interested in teamwork.' - Nicholas Bardsley, Economics and Philosophy

PATER ANDRAS Lecturer in the School of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle, UK CRISTINA BICCHIERI Professor of Philosophy and Decision Sciences and Director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at the University of Pennsylvania, USA CAROL BORRILL Senior Lecturer in Work and Organisational Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, UK ANDREW M. COLMAN Professor of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK MARAGRET GILBERT Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA WIEBE VAN DER HOEK Professor in Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK SUSAN HURLEY Professor at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford, UK JOHN LAZARUS Reader in Animal Behaviour, University of Newcastle, UK YOSHIYUKI MATSUMURA Lecturer in the Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan RALPH R. MILLER Distinguished Professor of Psychology at SUNY-Binghamton, USA DAVID P. MYATT Oxford University Lecturer in Economic Theory and Mathematical Economics, and the John Thomson Fellow and Tutor in Economics at St Catherine's College, UK MARK PAULY Researcher for the National Scientific Research Centre of France (CNRS) at the Institute for Computer Science in Toulouse (IRIT), France ROBERT SUGDEN Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK JOHN TIMMEL Evolutionary biologist who investigated human decision making and problem solving while earning his Ph.D. at Binghamton University, USA MATTHEW TODD Co-founder of Liizuka Software, UK CHRIS WALLACE Oxford University Lecturer in Economics and Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, UK MICHAEL WEST Professor of Organisational Psychology, and the Research Director for Aston Business School, UK MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK JEREMY WYATT Director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab, University of Birmingham, UK DAVID SLOAN WILSON Evolutionary biologist who studies humans along with other species