Understanding Team Cognition: The Shift to Cognitive Similarity Configurations

Abstract

This commentary focuses on S. A. McComb's chapter on the process of mental model convergence and provides guidance for advancing this research stream. McComb's chapter highlights many of the theoretical and methodological challenges that have plagued the study of cognition in teams. This commentary addresses those challenges and offers suggestions for the next steps in this field. Specifically, it considers the complex and abstract nature of team cognition and offers an elaborated model for understanding cognitive similarity that includes cognitive similarity configurations.

Citation

Rentsch, J.R. and Small, E.E. (2007), "Understanding Team Cognition: The Shift to Cognitive Similarity Configurations", Dansereau, F. and Yammarino, F.J. (Ed.) Multi-Level Issues in Organizations and Time (Research in Multi-Level Issues, Vol. 6), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 159-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1475-9144(07)06007-9