ABSTRACT
In Part B of this chapter, information exchange in the team is examined in more abstract terms of frames and scripts. Since the interorganizational team understudy organized into subteams that differed in their status distributions, scripts initiated by the same member in meetings that differ in distributions of status can be analyzed. The observed differences in proportions of team scripts that the member invoke in their subteam meetings in comparison with the proportions of the same scripts they invoke in the team meetings are in predicted directions and statistically significant. The results for the molar designations of scripts are consistent with results for specific information types repeated in Part A. Overall, the results clearly indicate that information exchange in the team was not close to the equality anticipated by designers and team members. The inequality that is documented is generally consistent with the framework on the consequences of status distributions for information exchange in teams.
