Daily Team Behaviors as Predictors of Team Effectiveness Outcomes: Evidence from a Technology Entrepreneurship Incubator Program

Meg Small, Sally Dancer, Jonathan Wright, Blake Anthony Colaianne and Gillian Sommerville

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Abstract: Team effectiveness in high-stakes, time-limited work contexts remains an underexplored area of organizational and applied psychology research. This study examined whether daily process behaviors—specifically team communication and collaboration—predict end-of-program team effectiveness outcomes in the context of an intensive, eight-week technology entrepreneurship incubator program. Participants were members of five start-up teams enrolled in the start-up program at a large research university. As part of a larger mixed-methods study, participants completed daily diary measures of team communication and collaboration using a digital platform (Metricwire) for 15 days. At program end, participants completed a post-program survey assessing team effectiveness outcomes including creativity, psychological safety, team viability, collective efficacy, authentic relationships, opportunities for growth, and program satisfaction. Simple linear regressions revealed that daily collaboration significantly predicted creativity, psychological safety, team viability, and collective efficacy. Daily communication similarly predicted creativity and psychological safety. Authentic relationships were not significantly predicted by either behavioral measure. These findings contribute to the growing literature on team process and performance by demonstrating that observable daily team behaviors capture meaningful variance in team effectiveness outcomes, Implications for team-based intervention design and digital measurement methodology are discussed.

Date: 2026-09-17
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