Title: Contextualizing ties among teammates
Description: The focus of this article is the pattern of interactions that arise within small work teams, or what we call ties among teammates, and how organizational and institutional factors play a role in shaping these ties. Based on an ethnographic study of teams across three national contexts, we provide a thick description of the variation in ties among teammates. We further show how different patterns of ties form mutually reinforcing systems with aspects of the organizational context. Our findings suggest a nested theory of structuration, which has a range of implications for better understanding both stability and change in organizations.