title: Understanding team adaptation: a conceptual analysis and model.
abstract: This endeavor provides a multidisciplinary, multilevel, and multiphasic conceptualization of team adaptation with theoretical roots in the cognitive, human factors, and industrial-organizational psychology literature. Team adaptation and the emergent nature of adaptive team performance are defined from a multilevel, theoretical standpoint. An input-throughput-output model is advanced to illustrate a series of phases unfolding over time that constitute the core processes and emergent states underlying adaptive team performance and contributing to team adaptation. The cross-level mixed-determinants model highlights team adaptation in a nomological network of lawful relations. Testable propositions, practical implications, and directions for further research in this area are also advanced.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. sburke@ist.ucf.edu
authors.forename: C Shawn
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.forename: Kevin C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Stagl
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Salas
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pierce
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kendall
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003071:Cognition; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory