Dear Vittal, you will find some helpful articles in the Handbook of Cultural Intelligence, ed. by Soon Ang & Linn Van Dyne (2008, especially part 3).

A meta-analysis of 108 empirical studies on processes and performance in 10,632 teams is offered here:

Stahl, G. K., Maznevski, M. L., Voigt, A. & Jonsen, K. (2010). Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A meta-analysis of research on multicultural work groups. Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 690–709, doi:10.1057/jibs.2009.85.

And here's a paper quite typical for social psychological approaches to the topic and containing valuable bibliographical hints:

Well I work in the area of entrepreneurial teams and virtual (geographically distributed teams) teams and have published some work already.. It might be useful for you.

Knapp, M., Breitenecker R.J., Khan, M.S., (2014) Achievement Motivation Diversity and

Entrepreneurial Team Performance: The Mediating Role of Cohesion. European Journal of International Management, Forthcoming.

Khan, M.S., Breitenecker R.J., Schwarz E.J (2014) Entrepreneurial Team Locus of

Control: Diversity and Trust. Management Decision, 52(6) 1057-1081.

Khan, M.S., (2012) Role of Trust and Relationships in Geographically Distributed Teams:exploratory study on development sector. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations, 10(1), 40-58.

Stay tuned as we have two more pieces currently at an advanced stage of the review process and if all go's well should be coming soon..

Regards,

Thank you. I already downloaded two articles from the above list from my library system. Will search for the remaining. Thanks for your prompt reply. I greatly appreciate it.

- Vittal

Dear Vittal, you will find some helpful articles in the Handbook of Cultural Intelligence, ed. by Soon Ang & Linn Van Dyne (2008, especially part 3).

A meta-analysis of 108 empirical studies on processes and performance in 10,632 teams is offered here:

Stahl, G. K., Maznevski, M. L., Voigt, A. & Jonsen, K. (2010). Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A meta-analysis of research on multicultural work groups. Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 690–709, doi:10.1057/jibs.2009.85.

And here's a paper quite typical for social psychological approaches to the topic and containing valuable bibliographical hints:

Thank you Pradeep. I greatly appreciate your reference and the article. It would be useful.

- Vittal

If you are interested in team mental model (and in the extent to which the fact of sharing the same mindset affects team performance) this review could be useful. 

Mohammed, S., Ferzandi, L., & Hamilton, K. (2010). Metaphor no more: a 15-year review of the team mental model construct. Journal of Management, 36 (4), 876-910.

Thank you Michela. 

I think that having a team of any sort needs to have a designated leader who is open to some sort of democratic process but they need to also be able to delegate certain tasks to each of the members. In SOME circumstances it is also advised to have divergent view points from those who are part of the team because they may offer something of considerable value, an item that you have either overlook or never considered. Perhaps having separate teams of researchers who are unaware of the others, this will add increased validity in your project. Do not forget the Noncompete Agreement that they sign when they join.

I second Michela Loi's suggestion about Susan Mohammed's and others' work about shared mental models. I think that, if these are task focused, you have a leg up. Also, for "team leadership" I think this is something of an oxymoron, since self-managing teams rely on everyone taking an expertise-relevant leadership role and providing back-up for one another. These rely on constructs of "recognition of expertise" and "back-up behaviors", respectively. There are a bunch of recent references on the former and Eduardo Salas and colleagues have done interesting work on the latter. I'm a big fan of Eduardo's work, which has a strong applied bent. I should also mention my own work on organizational development of teams and a couple of follow-up papers by Deb Shapiro and Bradley Kirkman:

Jones, R.G. & Lindley, W. (1998). Issues in the transition to teams. Journal of Business and Psychology, 13, 31-40.

Kirkman, B.L., Jones, R.G., & Shapiro, D.L. (2000). Why do employees resist teams? Examining the resistance barrier to work team effectiveness. International Journal for Conflict Management, 11, 74-92.

Thank you Robert.  I will refer to those articles.

Thank you Antonio. I appreciate that you shared an article. 

I just wondered if the two attached links to team articles can be of help to you.

http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=18&sid=b885a5b9-46c5-494d-8078-06ffc960ea50%40sessionmgr113&hid=127&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=e6h&AN=76169259

http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=20&sid=b885a5b9-46c5-494d-8078-06ffc960ea50%40sessionmgr113&hid=127&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=e6h&AN=88838064

Debi,

Thank you. Eventually, my research effort will turn into a book. Thanks. I am also associated with MDI in the past. 

Dear Vittal, do let me know when the book is published. I would be interested in knowing the results.

Team Communication

http://www.johnwiley.com.au/highered/eunson3e/site/lecturer-res/downloads/sample_chapter.pdf

Baden, Thank you for sharing the chapter. I appreciate it. 

I'm just finishing my bachelor's thesis about intercultural and interdisciplinary team research and came across those articles and chapters. Maybe they can be helpful for you, too.

A process stage model of cross-cultural teams by Smith & Noakes (1996) in the Handbook of Work Group Psychology by West (Chapter 19). Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.

van den Bossche, Gijselaers, Segers & Kirschner (2006). Social and Cognitive Factors Driving Teamwork in Collaborative Learning Environments Team Learning Beliefs and Behaviors. Small Group Research, 37. -- tries to catch the group level, so more the sociology direction you're searching for. Add your answer

Fiore, S. M. (2008). Interdisciplinarity as Teamwork: How the Science of Teams Can Inform Team Science. Small Group Research, 39(3), 251-277. doi: 10.1177/1046496408317797 - also gives a good overview about teams.

Thank you Michaela.. All the three papers will be relevant and useful for my study.

Hi there. Maybe some papers on social identity theory by Tajfel might help. 

Tajfel, H. (Ed.). (2010). Social identity and intergroup relations (Vol. 7). Cambridge University Press.

Hogg, M. A. (2006). Social identity theory. Contemporary social psychological theories, 111-136.

Ashforth, B. E., & Mael, F. (1989). Social identity theory and the organization. Academy of management review, 14(1), 20-39.

thank you Azlyn. I will get these papers and review them.

Vittal,

I think the best way forward here is looking at group dynamics and in- group relations and then relate it to teams and project groups?

Here is some links to good books which give a good overall view on the subject from a social psychology approach.

. Dion, K. L. (2000). "Group cohesion: From "field of forces" to multidimensional construct". Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice 4: 7–2

Wageman, R. (1995). "Interdependence and Group Effectiveness". Administrative Science Quarterly 40 (1): 145–180

ornsey, M. J.; Hogg, M. A. (2000). "Subgroup Relations: A Comparison of Mutual Intergroup Differentiation and Common Ingroup Identity Models of Prejudice Reduction". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 26 (2): 242.

Spears, R.; Ellemers, N.; Doosje, B. (2005). "Let me count the ways in which I respect thee: Does competence compensate or compromise lack of liking from the group?". European Journal of Social Psychology 35 (2): 263

Ryan, Carey S.; Bogart, Laura M. (Oct 1997). "Development of new group members' in-group and out-group stereotypes: Changes in perceived variability and ethnocentrism". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 73 (4): 719–732

Alderfer, C. P. (1983). An intergroup perspective on group dynamics (No. SOM-WP-57). YALE UNIV NEW HAVEN CT SCHOOL OF ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT.

Cartwright, D. E., & Zander, A. E. (1953). Group dynamics research and theory.

Thank you Christine.. That's very useful. I will review all these documents. 

- Vittal

google (scholar) for concepts like: psychological safety, transformational leadership and such. Als the old work of Hackman (1970's) might be of use.

Thank you Jelle.. I have collected some 60-70 journal articles from tier 1 journals, thanks to you all....I am reviewing them.

would be happy to add Vittal, but see you already have 24 responses - if you still want more inputs, just le me know... 

Cheers

Adi