Communication and success of interdisciplinary team

Praised for its potential to stimulate creativity and innovation and to facilitate dealing with complex issues, interdisciplinary may also impair goal attainment and generate group conflicts. This study combines a large literature review and a case study of a workgroup having successfully benefit from its interdisciplinarity to reach its goal. We propose an articulation of the various processes of workgroups with regards to the benefits and obstacles of interdisciplinarity. We model how positive actions are enacted in key areas of interdisciplinary team dynamics: common ground development, interdisciplinary know-how and skills, equitable power dynamics, significant symbolic communication and a diversified spatial and structural organization.