The Social Structure of Scientific Research Teams

Abstract

This research developed an abstract conceptualization of the social structure of scientific research teams and empirically investigated its utility. Two typologies formed the basis of the conceptualization: A typology of teams and a typology of leadership roles. The concepts were operationalized using questions on a self-administered questionnaire and indices derived from those questions. The responses of 150 principal investigators of research teams with annual budgets of more than $100,000 were analyzed by fitting “logit” models to three-variable tables. These models, based on log-linear analysis, employed the two typologies as both independent and dependent variables. When the typologies were treated as independent variables, each of twenty-six other features of team operation was introduced as a dependent variable. The typologies successfully predicted the dependent variable in twenty of these twenty-six analyses.

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