AI 中文总结
本研究提出团队注意力引导能力（ADA）这一潜在团队能力，通过分析2233名参与者组成的79个自组织团队的协作数据，发现ADA可显著预测团队的集体工作参与度与绩效，推进了相关理论发展。
AI 中文摘要
为什么一些团队能持续调动集体努力并取得优异绩效，而另一些团队却难以协调行动？我们提出注意力引导能力（Attention-Directing Ability，ADA），这是一种潜在的团队能力，用于捕捉成员的互动信号能多有效地引发他人的参与和协调反应。基于注意力基础观，我们将注意力引导概念化为嵌入互动模式中的涌现协调能力，而非认知状态或结果。团队在注意力引导信号触发集体反应的程度上存在差异，这些差异会影响团队调动努力和绩效的方式。我们在一项分布式创新研究中检验了ADA，该研究涉及2233名参与者，他们在165个公开Slack频道中以异步方式组成79个自组织团队开展协作，生成了超过3万条消息。我们对互动信号间的因果响应进行建模，并从团队的注意力动态中推导ADA的潜在度量。我们发现，ADA能显著预测团队调动参与以维持集体工作的可能性，以及在参与条件下的绩效；在纠正项目提交的自我选择偏差后，ADA更高的团队更有可能提交提案并获得专家评估的更高成果。因果中介分析显示，这些效应主要通过集体努力发挥作用，表明注意力引导是一种上游协调能力。本研究通过将注意力概念化为一种可测量的涌现团队能力，推进了集体注意力和团队协调理论。
英文摘要
Why do some teams consistently mobilize collective effort and achieve superior performance while others struggle to coordinate action? We introduce Attention-Directing Ability (ADA), a latent team capability capturing how effectively members' interaction signals elicit engagement and coordinated responses from others. Extending the attention-based view, we conceptualize attention direction as an emergent coordination capability embedded in patterns of interaction rather than as a cognitive state or an outcome. Teams differ in the extent to which attention-directing signals trigger collective responses, and these differences shape how teams mobilize effort and perform. We examine ADA in a distributed innovation effort involving 2,233 participants collaborating asynchronously in 79 self-organized teams across 165 public Slack channels, generating over 30,000 messages. We model the causal responsiveness among interaction signals and derive a latent measure of ADA from teams' attention dynamics. We find that ADA strongly predicts both teams' likelihood of mobilizing engagement to sustain collective work and their performance conditional on participation. Correcting for self-selection into project submission, teams with higher ADA are more likely to submit proposals and achieve higher expert-evaluated outcomes. Causal mediation analyses show that these effects operate primarily through collective effort, indicating that attention direction functions as an upstream coordination capability. By conceptualizing attention as an emergent, measurable team capability, this study advances theories of collective attention and team coordination.
