The prevalence of teams in organizational settings has dramatically increased over the last 50 years, and as such, researchers have made much progress in understanding the conditions and intra-team dynamics that facilitate successful team performance. However, much remains to be learned due to the complexity of teams. This complexity often makes it difficult to study teams operating in context, especially when trying to examine longitudinal aspects of teams. Adding to this difficulty, studying teams in context is resource intensive and access is often a key barrier, especially if the focus is on teams that are elite or that operate in extreme environments. This drives a need to look outside the traditional methodological tools typically utilized to study teams. Thereby, the purpose of this manuscript is to highlight a method that while not typically utilized in the team literature can offer benefits when exploring team dynamics in context—historiometry.

在过去的50年中，团队在组织环境中的普及率急剧上升，因此，研究人员在理解促进团队成功表现的条件和团队内部动态方面取得了很大进步。但是，由于团队的复杂性，仍有很多事情需要学习。这种复杂性通常使研究团队在上下文中运作变得困难，尤其是在尝试检查团队的纵向方面时。更加困难的是，在上下文中研究团队会占用大量资源，而访问通常是一个主要障碍，尤其是如果重点是精英团队或在极端环境中运作的团队。这就驱使人们需要超越通常用于研究团队的传统方法学工具。从而，