Future INGRoup Conferences

The next INGRoup conference will be held in Omaha, Nebraska from July 22 -24, 2027.

We are currently soliciting proposals for conference locations in 2028 and beyond! If you are interested in hosting the INGRoup conference, contact Anita Blanchard, Vice President, Conference Coordinator, at anita.blanchard@uncc.edu.

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Small Group Research Special Issue

Small Group Research has a new special issue featuring articles from INGRoup's McGrath Award winners. Access the articles here:

Reflections and Insights on Groups and Teams from McGrath Lifetime Achievement Award Winners (Introduction by INGRoup president Steve Zaccaro and INGRoup vice president Anita Blanchard)
Mara Waller (2024 winner): Something of a Career
Amy Edmondson (2021 winner): Team Learning in the Field: An Organizing Framework and Avenues for Future Research
Laurie Weingart (2020 winner): Reflections of an Accidental Scholar and the Founding of INGRoup
John Hollenbeck (2019 winner): Hit Me with Your Best Shot: A Reflective Essay on a Career in the Field of Team Research
Linda Argote (2018 winner): Group Dynamics Meets Organizational Learning: Reflections on Research
Steve Kozlowski (2017 winner): A Multilevel, Emergent Journey to Unpack Team Process Dynamics
Sara Kiesler (2016 winner): Challenges for Research on Groups in Cyberspace
John Mathieu (2015 winner): Reflections on the Field of Workgroup Research and My Personal Journey

We are saddened to report that one of our McGrath Lifetime Achievement Award winners, John Levine, has passed away. He was a prolific researcher and will be greatly missed by the INGRoup community.

Click the photograph to see John's obituary.

HAPPENING NOW...

📢 Call for Papers 📢

1) Teaching Teamwork in Higher Education - Submission Deadline NLT May 1, 2027.

van der Kamp, M., Janssens, M., Christenson, K., & Emery, A. (2026). CALL FOR PAPERS Small Group Research Special Guest-Edited Issue on Teaching Teamwork in Higher Education. Small Group Research, 57(5), 918-919. https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964261483335

📖 Latest Reads! 📖

DiazGranados, D., Allen, J. A., and Blanchard, A. (2026). Beyond the agenda: Meetings as foundational to team entitativity, innovation, and effectiveness in scientific contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1761061

Bello, K., Aqlan, F., & Salas, E. (2025). Understanding shared mental models in virtual teams: Key insights and future directions. Small Group Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964251395005

Harris-Watson, A. M., Byun, C., & Larson, L. E. (2026). What’s in a name? Implications of AI roles and mind perception for Human-AI teams. Human Factors, 68(11), 1523–1553. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208261457702

Kim, Y., Weingart, L. R., Bendersky, C., Behfar, K., Todorova, G., Bear, J., Jehn, K., & Miron-Spektor, E. (2026). Conflict expression tendencies in workgroups: Measure validation and a test of theory. Small Group Research. https://doi-org.mutex.gmu.edu/10.1177/10464964261448469

Madrid, H. P., Patterson, M., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2026). Team positive affective tone in the relationship between psychological safety and innovation. Small Group Research, 57(5), 784-799. https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964261417692

Moore, M. J., Bell, E. A., Wentworth, A. N., Traylor, A. M., Shuffler, M. L., & Salas, E. (2026). Who (or what) is a teammate? A conceptual foundation for human-technology teaming. Small Group Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964261478624

Piercy, C. W., Yoon, K., Kim, Y. J., & Zhu, Y. (2026). Knowledge-sharing tensions in multiteam contexts: Idealized openness and conditional closedness. Small Group Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964261419477

Semmer N. K., Keller S., Nixon A. E., Beldi G., & Tschan, F. (2026), Explaining situational triggers of incivility in tightly cooperating teams: towards a theory of micro-coordination conflict. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 75(11), 107–125. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-04-2026-0396

White, A. D., Lynch, J., Li, Z., Evans, M. B., & Benson, A. J. (2026). Team potency as a driver of higher and more equal task contributions. Small Group Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964261472424

Past Publications
by
INGRoup Members

Fadel, K. J., Wright, L., Mattarelli, E., & Hariharan, B. (2026). Studying Multi-Team Membership and AI Use: An Experimental Platform. Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Blay, T., Froese, F. J., Raghuram, S., Bell, B. S., & Bäker, A. (2026). Managing Virtual Work: An Integrative Framework for Human Resource Management. Human Resource Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.70087
Casolino, M., Benedetti, L., Gioiello, G., Mascia, D., & Vardabasso, M. (2026). Operational inefficiency and perceived quality in a paediatric day hospital: a lean-informed study of patient flow, caregiver and staff perceptions. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 38(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzag087
Hetrick, A. L., Spoelma, T., & Marchiondo, L. A. (2026). Do Men Who Spill the Tea in Teams Get Burned? Gender Differences in Perceived Competence and Leadership Emergence of Team Members Who Gossip. Journal of Organizational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70106
Emich, K. J., Bell, B. S., Hollenbeck, J. R., Mathieu, J. E., Peterson, R. S., Tannenbaum, S. I., Weingart, L. R., & Woolley, A. W. (2026). Personnel Psychology's 40‐Questions Series: The Science and Practice of Groups and Teams. Personnel Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.70033
Black, N., Newton, D. W., & Nahrgang, J. D. (2026). Interpreting the Chorus: A Reply to “Leaders on the Other Side of Voice: Extending Black et al.’s Integrative Theory of Collective Voice”. Academy of Management Review. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2026.0481
Shi, T., Thatcher, S. M. B., Richter, A. W., Zhang, S. X., & Jahanshahi, A. A. (2026). The Great Temporal Divide: How Top Management Team Temporal Faultlines and Dominant Subgroups Shape Firm Innovativeness in Iran. Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70113
Ross, W., Agnoli, S., Baas, M., Danek, A. H., Lebuda, I., Ackerman, R., Аммалайнен, А., Benedek, M., Bai, H., Ball, L. J., Barbot, B., Campidelli, L., Caravona, L., Ceh, S., Corazza, G. E., Czerwonka, M., Luft, C. D. B., Hart, Y., Jędrusiak, J., Kenett, Y. N., Khalil, R., Macchi, L., Mangion, M., Miroshnik, K. G., Nawrocka, P., Nijstad, B. A., Ollinger, M., Ormerod, T. C., Rafner, J., Reis, M., Rominger, C., Rummel, J., Salvi, C., Segatta, C., Stevenson, C. E., Tulver, K., Urban, K., Urban, M., Vallée‐Tourangeau, F., & Weiss, S. (2026). Creative Cognition: A Collaborative Research Agenda. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 60(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70097
Glikson, E., Asscher, O., & Harush, R. (2026). AI in multilingual organizational communication: the impact of culturally adapting machine translation on global leadership self-efficacy. Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1108/ccsm-09-2024-0230
Sergeeva, A., Argote, L., Alexy, O., Leonardi, P. M., & Faraj, S. (2026). From tools to constitutive forces: Intelligent technologies in strategy and organization. Strategic Organization, 24(2), 229–236. https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270261441911
Liu, C., Blair, B. A., & Tenney, E. R. (2026). Registered Report: Can Agentic Black Women Get Ahead? An Experiment Revisited. Psychological Science, 37(5), 347–364. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976261436988