TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose This chapter reviews 30 years of Advances in Group Processes. Its primary purpose is to study the part the series has played in the advances in the study of group processes that have taken place between 1984 and 2014.Design/methodology/approach This chapter places the 30 years of Advances in Group Processes in the context of the changes that took place between small groups research in the 1950s and group processes research in the 1980s and beyond.Findings Analyzing the policies of Advances in Group Processes and its contents, this chapter reflects on its role in the advances in group processes that have taken place since the 1980s. Between 1950 and 1980, small group research reinvented, reconceptualized, and reinvigorated itself as group process research. Between the two periods, small group research, its applied research, and its research programs became increasingly theory-driven and its concept of the group and its levels increasingly analytic. As a consequence of these changes, the concept of the field itself became increasingly analytic. The changes between the two periods in its theory, research, application, programs, and in its concept of the group and the way the field was conceptualized led to marked advances in group process research in the 90s and beyond – to more theory, more impact of it on application, and more, and more cumulative, growth of it. Advances in Group Processes was at once a reflection of the changes that took place between the two periods and a driving force in the advances in group processes research that have taken place ever since.Originality/valueAdvances in Group Processes is a fundamental resource for the development of theory and research on small groups and group processes. This chapter provides an overview of its contributions and places them in the context of the development of the field as a whole.
VL  - 30
SN  - 978-1-78190-976-8/0882-6145
DO  - 10.1108/S0882-6145(2013)0000030004
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0882-6145(2013)0000030004
AU  - Zelditch Morris
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - Thirty Years of Advances in Group Processes: A Review Essay
T2  - Advances in Group Processes
T3  - Advances in Group Processes
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1
EP  - 19
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -