Developing ideas and concepts in teamwork research:Where do we go from here?

PurposeThis editorial seeks to explore changes in both teamwork and developments in teamwork research over the last decade.Design/methodology/approachThe editorial review importantly focuses on the key debates that emerge from the papers covered in this special issue.FindingsA review of the papers in this special issue, as well as historical analysis of teamwork research, indicate that while traditionally, analysis of teamwork was embedded in a manufacturing archetype, much of the contemporary research on teamwork is centred on service sector work where issues of cultural diversity, customer service, and lack of normative integration or task interdependence are increasingly apparent. This editorial suggests that we need to take account of the expansion of the service sector when attempting to conceptualise teamwork and the challenges that collective forms of working in such an environment bring.Originality/valueThis editorial and the special issue more generally provide an important contribution to the development of understanding of how changes in the workplace have had an impact on organisational and academic interest in teamwork.</jats:sec

Editorial Changes

Every two to three years PINS “renews” its Editorial group. This allows current editors to commit to staying on the journal’s editorial group, or to move off to pursue other intellectual interests. This process ensures that the editorial group members who choose to stay on continue to devote some time and energy to the running of the journal. As an independent journal, with no infrastructural support, PINS relies on the “free labour” of editors to contribute to its production and continued sustainability. The editorial renewal also allows PINS to approach new people to join the editorial group. This new Editorial group is an exciting mix of experience, innovative ideas, and scholarly commitment to psychological theory and practice that is socially embedded in the society in which it operates. In their hands, the social project of PINS should be well served

A Class of Anisotropic Five-Dimensional Solutions for the Early Universe

We solve the Ricci-flat equations of extended general relativity to obtain an interesting class of cosmological models. The solutions are analogous to the 4D ones of Bianchi type-I of Kasner type and have significant implications for astrophysics.Comment: V2 has some minor editorial changes in the introductio