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Are Permanent Or Temporary Teams More Efficient: A Possible Explanation Of The Empirical Data, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Are Permanent Or Temporary Teams More Efficient: A Possible Explanation Of The Empirical Data, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
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It is known that in education, stable (long-term) student teams are more effective than temporary (short-term) ones. It turned out that the same phenomenon is true for workers working on a long-term project. However, somewhat surprisingly, for small-scale projects, the opposite is true: teams without any prior collaboration experience are more successful. Moreover, it turns out that if combine in a team members with prior collaboration experience and members without such experience, the efficiency of the team gets even lower. In this paper, we provide a possible explanation for this strange empirical phenomenon.