Contextualization and Context Theorizing in Teams Research: A Look Back and a Path Forward

In this paper the authors review recent field research on teams in the workplace with the objective to help advance research about teams and their external context. The authors investigate contextualization by reviewing the research settings in which teams have been studied, and they investigate context theorizing by reviewing work where external context variables have been explicitly modeled. The authors propose guidelines to improve contextualization and avenues to explore context theorizing.