This open access book through an in-depth process study of the interactions of two creative
groups (film production crew) in temporary organizations during two media projects explores
how a team developmental process unfolds and proposes a model illustrating how the groups
repeatedly change formation so that individuals can manage job interdependencies and new issues
arising while developing building up and synthesizing new ideas into a final creative
solution. This theory on creative group dynamic coordination builds theory on how and why
creative groups coordinate challenges assumptions about the role of formal structures and
informal practices by demonstrating how the two dynamically interact and complement each other
to facilitate coordination via the emergence of what one would expect to be un-coordinated
methods and provides an alternative perspective to the stages the groups have to go through by
emphasizing a cyclical and not a linear team developmental process.
