ABSTRACT
Multiteam systems (MTSs) exist to join the efforts of complex systems of teams toward the accomplishment of ambitious goals too large to be tackled by a single team. These systems have boundaries that differ substantially from those of teams and organizations; they span teams, functions, and geography, and stretch across organizations, industry sectors, and, quite often, nations (Mathieu, Marks, & Zaccaro, 2001; Zaccaro, Marks, & DeChurch, Chapter 1, this volume). For example, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill required an MTS to develop the engineering solution that ultimately stopped oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico; this MTS included teams with divergent complementary expertise located in corporate and public sectors in the United States and United Kingdom.
