This paper introduces a theoretical framework intended to define the nature, structure, and function of external team contexts. The external team context is defined as the resources, stimuli, elements, and features that are part of a broader multilevel system but exist outside the team's boundaries and that influence (and are influenced by) the team in temporally dynamic ways. The proposed framework seeks to understand all such contexts in terms of three continuous dimensions. First, munificence is the portfolio of resources that exist in the external team context and is composed of the quantity, quality, and interconnectedness of resources. Second, temporal dynamism is the manner in which resources in the external team context change over time and is composed of valence, rate of change, and continuity. Third, spatial variability is the span of levels at which resources exist within the broader system and is composed of origins, systemic distance, and bond strength. Contextual complexity is thus a function of munificence, temporal dynamism, and spatial variability. The framework posits that nearly all discrete contextual stimuli, events, and features can be understood in terms of these dimensions and subdimensions. In doing so, the framework integrates and reconciles several diverse strands of research, spanning different levels and disciplines, in a way that is parsimonious, precise, and falsifiable. The framework offers many insights for theory, empirical research, and practice and helps complement and advance existing theories and frameworks. A preliminary measure of context is also provided to help researchers apply and test the framework. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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了解外部团队环境的回顾和理论框架。

本文介绍了一个旨在定义外部团队环境的性质、结构和功能的理论框架。外部团队环境被定义为资源、刺激、元素和特征，它们是更广泛的多层次系统的一部分，但存在于团队边界之外，并且以时间动态的方式影响（并受其影响）团队。拟议的框架试图从三个连续的维度来理解所有这些背景。首先，丰富性是存在于外部团队环境中的资源组合，由资源的数量、质量和相互关联性组成。其次，时间活力是外部团队环境中的资源随时间变化的方式，由效价、变化率和连续性组成。第三，空间变异性是资源在更广泛系统中存在的水平跨度，由起源、系统距离和结合强度组成。因此，语境复杂性是丰富性、时间活力和空间可变性的函数。该框架假定几乎所有离散的上下文刺激、事件和特征都可以根据这些维度和子维度来理解。在此过程中，该框架以简约、精确和可证伪的方式整合和协调了跨越不同层次和学科的多个不同研究方向。该框架为理论、实证研究和实践提供了许多见解，并有助于补充和推进现有的理论和框架。还提供了对上下文的初步测量，以帮助研究人员应用和测试该框架。