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Institutional contexts have a dramatic impact on cross-disciplinary team science by creating the conditions that can help or hinder these efforts. Though team science leaders have limited control over many of these conditions, through proactive management and use of robust strategic planning techniques, leaders of cross-disciplinary science teams can improve their chances of success. At the strategic level, leaders must understand why cross-disciplinary science teams and organizations are created and analyze the other important actors in the environment to develop their situational awareness. At the operational level, leaders must understand how to manage relationships with participants and with other important actors and what the team provides that is of value to those that it depends upon, thus creating a viable value proposition and a successful value chain. Armed with an understanding of their external situation and their internal operations, science team leaders can make better strategic decisions to improve the munificence of their institutional situations and enhance their likelihood of success.
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Winter, S. (2019). Organizational Perspective on Leadership Strategies for the Success of Cross-Disciplinary Science Teams. In: Hall, K., Vogel, A., Croyle, R. (eds) Strategies for Team Science Success. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20992-6_25
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