Abstract

Purpose
Team social capital (TSC) has been attracting increasing research attention aiming to explore team effectiveness through within- and cross-team resource conduits. This study bridges two disconnected theories – TSC and evolutionary theory – to examine gaming clans and analyzes mechanisms of the clans' TSC building from an evolutionary perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
This research draws longitudinal data from a sample of gaming teams (N = 1,267) from anonymized player data from the game World of Tanks spanning 32 months. The authors explored teams' evolutionary patterns using hidden Markov models and applied longitudinal multilevel modeling to test hypotheses.
Findings
The results showed that teams of different sizes and levels of evolutionary fitness vary in team closure and bridging social capital. The authors also found that larger teams are more effective than smaller ones …

Metadata

publication

Internet Research 33 (3), 1053-1078, 2023

year

2023

publication date

2023/5/17

authors

Yiqi Li, Nathan Bartley, Jingyi Sun, Dmitri Williams

link

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/INTR-04-2021-0260/full/html

resource_link

http://dmitriwilliams.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Larger-fitter.pdf

journal

Internet Research

volume

33

issue

3

pages

1053-1078

publisher

Emerald Publishing Limited