Extemporaneous Coordination in Specialist Teams: The Familiarity Complementarity

The authors would like to thank Colin Fisher, Brent Goldfarb, Martin Kilduff, Blaine Landis, John Mathieu, Damon Phillips, Katherine Phillips, Alessandro Piazza, Jonah Rawley, Ray Reagans, Bart Vanneste, Joel Waldfogel, Dan Wang, and seminar participants at University College London, University of Connecticut, University of Minnesota, Purdue University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Johns Hopkins University, IESEG School of Management, Fordham University, Manhattan College, the Academy of Management Conference, the BYU Winter Strategy Conference, the Institutions & Innovation Conference and the Strategic Management Conference for comments, and suggestions. The data in this paper were assembled with the excellent assistance of Jacqueline Araya Rebolledo, Jimmy Baodong Pan, James Kainesley and Daniel Mechanic. The authors are especially grateful to UCL School of Management and Worcester Polytechnic Institute for technical support. All errors remain their own. All authors contributed equally to this manuscript and are listed in alphabetical order.