The Impact of Team-Level Norms and Team Charters on the Performance-Trajectories of Work-Teams

The emergence of team-level norms and their impact on team-level outcome variables over time is a recurring, yet under-researched topic. Recently, with the increasing application of teams by organizations and factors such as higher interdisciplinarity and dispersion further challenging teamwork processes, the upfront establishment of team charters has been suggested as a promising tool for triggering these norms and thus providing for more effective cooperation. In this context, a total of 32 articles was analyzed, giving a wide-ranged view on the status quo of the relevant literature, as well as highlighting considerable gaps of knowledge that future research should aim to address.