This 36-chapter handbook presents research on group and team communication. Communication, organizational psychology, and other scholars from the US and Europe explore processual, structural, methodological, and theoretical aspects of group communication research. They describe the history of the field of group communication, the definition of groups, the use of the word context in group communication, and group communication theory; quantitative, qualitative, network, computational, and interaction/trajectory analysis methods of research; group processes, including leadership, decision making, technology, conflict, work, deliberation, influence, relationships, information processing, and temporality; structural influences on group communication, particularly group composition, interaction, technology, diversity, and multicommunicating; specific group contexts, namely work groups and action teams, juries, online support groups, medical teams, emergency teams, sports teams, and hidden groups; and the future of group communication research, including cultivating stronger groups and teams and research funding and international and interdisciplinary research. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
