Welcome to this special issue consisting of a selection of papers presented at the 17th edition of the International Workshop on Teamworking (IWOT), hosted by the TNO Institute, Leiden, The Netherlands, in November 2013. IWOT had its first conference in Nottingham in 1997, with researchers working both with qualitative and quantitative research strategies focusing on teamwork. The theme of the first conference was the increasing emergence of team working in general, with additional focus on socio technical systems theory, teamwork as a management idea, Japanese teams, autonomy in teams and cultural aspects of teamwork. The first conference resulted in an edited collection of the subject (Procter and Mueller, 2000), which has for years served as a significant resource for both academics and students.
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