Theories of Team Cognition

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Macrocognition, Team Learning, and Team Knowledge: Origins, Emergence, and Measurement^*

Steve W. J. Kozlowski and Georgia T. Chao

Macrocognition is an emerging multidisciplinary area of theory development and research activity that is focused on understanding how groups, teams, and other collective entities learn, develop meaningful knowledge, and apply it to resolve significant and challenging problems. The literature on team effectiveness has also exhibited considerable interest in team learning and cognitive representations of team knowledge such as team mental models, transactive memory, and knowledge stocks (Edmondson, Dillon, & Roloff, 2007). However, the origins and process of team learning remain conceptually murky, and there is considerable ...