The role of team-dynamics in entrepreneurial exit: An exploratory study

Entrepreneurial exit can be considered one of the most important moments in the entrepreneurial life cycle. However, within the literature, this importance was only recognized recently. Research regarding entrepreneurial exit went through a few stages; Firstly, the focus was on re-defining entrepreneurial exit and giving it a place in the life...

Maximising the performance of multi-diverse design teams

In our Integrated Product Design master at the Delft faculty of Industrial Design Engineering we see a growing diversity in our student population. Besides a growing number of different nationalities there are also significant differences in prior education, competences, and socioemotional aspects. Within the Advanced Embodiment Design (AED)...

The impact of status anonymity on team dynamics in co-creation workshops

This paper looks at the positive effects of partial status anonymity in face-to-face co-creation workshops. Results suggest that especially during the early phases of co-creation, i.e. idea generation, participants experience more freedom to express themselves without self-imposed barriers. We observed positive effects in terms of (1) lowering...

The I in Team: Mining Personal Social Interaction Routine with Topic Models from Long-Term Team Data

Social interaction plays a key role in assessing teamwork and collaboration. It becomes particularly critical in team performance when coupled with isolated, confined, and extreme conditions such as undersea missions. This work investigates how social interactions of individual members in a small team evolve during the course of a long...

New Frontiers in Analyzing Dynamic Group Interactions: Bridging Social and Computer Science

This special issue on advancing interdisciplinary collaboration between computer scientists and social scientists documents the joint results of the international Lorentz workshop, “Interdisciplinary Insights into Group and Team Dynamics,” which took place in Leiden, The Netherlands, July 2016. An equal number of scholars from social and...

Creative Solvers: A new creative platform originated from the analysis of creative problem solving and decision making

Both divergence and convergence are important drivers for the development of new ideas, and consequently products becoming drivers for innovation. Starting from this notion, this thesis investigates the areas of creative problem solving and decision-making, taking into account practices from new product development. Drawing inferences from...