Víctor Manuel Martín Pérez

Transactive memory processes that lead to better team results

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to evaluate dynamically those transactive memory processes that help to improve team results. Thus, the paper analyzes the processes by which transactive memory systems are created and we evaluate their effect on team results.Design/methodology/approach – To reach this objective, a quasi‐experiment was conducted with 167 students from the School of Business in a Spanish University during 2004‐2005. This experiment consisted of a business game where students had to make decisions in 44 teams.Findings – Transactive memory can help to understand differences in team results.Research limitations/implications – The limitations of our analysis are related to the short period of the quasi‐experiment.Originality/value – For courses which involve team learning, teachers would promote some specific practices and ways to work.

Implicaciones de la organización interna sobre la eficiencia. La aplicación de la teoría de la agencia y la metodología DEA a las ONGD españolas

Resumen La teoria de la agencia postula que para que una organizacion pueda desarrollar su actividad y alcanzar sus objetivos eficientemente, requiere de una arquitectura organizativa equilibrada. Las entidades sin fines de lucro (ENL) estan sometidas a estos mismos requerimientos en su organizacion interna aunque la evaluacion de su eficiencia se muestra como una tarea de gran complejidad. El objetivo basico del presente trabajo es valorar la relacion entre el equilibrio de la arquitectura organizativa y la eficiencia, mostrando, al mismo tiempo, que el analisis envolvente de datos (DEA) es un metodo especialmente indicado para medir la eficiencia de las ENL teniendo en cuenta sus particularidades en terminos de objetivos, composicion y funcionamiento. Con este proposito, se ha utilizado una muestra de 37 ENL dedicadas a la cooperacion internacional al desarrollo, que se han analizado con datos obtenidos a partir de entrevistas personales en profundidad durante el ano 2003. Tal como la teoria pronostica, los resultados muestran que las organizaciones no gubernamentales para el desarrollo (ONGD) en las que existe un equilibrio entre sus niveles de delegacion, sistemas de incentivos y medidas de evaluacion del rendimiento son las mas eficientes.

Social Capital, Knowledge Integration and Ambidexterity of Project-BasedTeams in R&D Organizations

Since the different approaches for analyzing ambidexterity are primarily understood at the organizational level, this article focuses on an operational level by recognizing projects as important sites for the exploration and the exploitation of knowledge. . Specifically, this paper studies the role of social capital that arises between members of a project team, and specifically, how those resources facilitate the process of knowledge integration and subsequent knowledge exploration and exploitation. We analyze 129 RD (2) how the three dimensions of social capital identified by Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) -cognitive capital, relational capital, and structural capital- influence the integration of knowledge inside project teams; and (3) how the three dimensions of social capital, internally focused, interact among themselves within project teams. Results show the influence of social capital throu...