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RAMóN RICO

Professor of Management

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology – Autonomous University of Madrid

M.A. in Organizations and Human Resources Management – Autonomous University of Madrid

B.A. in Psychology – Autonomous University of Madrid

Research interests

My current research focuses on team adaptation and adaptive leadership, team diversity, team motivation and multiteam systems effectiveness

Selected publications

Mohammed, S., Rico, R., & Alipour, K. (2021). Team Cognition at a Crossroad: Toward Conceptual Integration and Network Configurations. Academy of Management Annals. Doi:10.5465/annals.2018.0159

Rico, R., Gibson, C., Clark, M. y Sánchez-Manzanares, M. (2019). Building team effectiveness through adaptation: Team knowledge and implicit and explicit coordination. Organizational Psychology Review, 9, 71-98. doi: 10.1177/2041386619869972.

Antino, M., Rico, R., & Thatcher, S. (2019). Structuring reality through the faultlines lens: The effects of structure, fairness, and status conflict on the activated faultlines-performance relationship. Academy of Management Journal, 62, 1444–1470.

Uitdewilligen, S., Rico, R. & Waller, M. (2018). Fluid and Stable: Dynamics of Team Interaction Patterns and Adaptive Outcomes. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39, 1113-1128.

Rico, R., Salas, E. Burke, S. & Hinsz, V. (2017). A multilevel model of Multiteam Motivation and Performance. Organizational Psychology Review, 7, 197-226.

Rico, R., Sánchez-Manzanares, M., Antino, M. & Lau, D. (2012) Bridging team faultlines by Combining Task Role Assignment and Goal Structure Strategies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 407-420.

Rico, R., Sánchez-Manzanares, M., Gil, F. & Gibson, C. (2008). Team implicit coordination processes: A team knowledge-based approach. Academy of Management Review 33, 163-184.

Rico, R., Molleman, E., Sánchez-Manzanares, M. & van der Vegt, G. (2007). The Effects of Diversity Faultlines and Team Task Autonomy on Decision Quality and Social Integration. Journal of Management 33, 111-132. 

Costa, P. Graça, A. M., Santos, C., Marques-Quinteiro, P. & Rico R. (2021) Teamworking virtually: business as usual? European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, doi: 10.1080/1359432X.2021.1936503


Mohammed, S., Rico, R., & Alipour, K. (2021). Team Cognition at a Crossroad: Toward Conceptual Integration and Network Configurations. Academy of Management Annals. Doi:10.5465/annals.2018.0159


Uitdewilligen, S., Rico, R., Thommes, M., & Waller, M. (2021). A pandemic is dynamic: Viewing COVID-19 through an adaptation lens. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 14, 61-65. doi:10.1017/iop.2021.14


Alcover, C., Rico, R., & West, M. (2021). Outfits that fit! A review and extension of team interventions to face team challenges across real settings. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 24, e23 doi: 10.1017/SJP.2021.21


Valls, V., Tomás, I., González Romá, V. & Rico, R. (2020). The influence of age-based faultlines on team performance: Examining mediational paths. European Management Journal. doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2020.10.008.


Navarro, J., Rueff-Lopes, R., & Rico, R. (2020) Special Issue Introduction: Nonlinear Dynamics in Work and Organizational Psychology. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology 29, 477-482.


Rico, R., Gibson, C., Sánchez-Manzanares, M. & Clark, M. (2020) Team Adaptation in Complex Environments: Lessons from Practice, Evidence from Research, and Challenges for the Road Ahead. Australian Journal of Management. doi: 10.1177/0312896220918908. 


Sánchez-Manzanares, M., Rico, R., Antino, M. & Uitdewilligen, S. (2020). The Joint Effects of Leadership Style and Magnitude of Change on Team Adaptation: A Longitudinal Experiment. Group and Organization Management, 45, 836-864. doi: 1059601120958838.


Marques-Quinteiro, P., Marques dos Santos, C., Costa, P., Graca, A., & Rico, R. (2020). Team adaptability and task cohesion as resources to the nonlinear dynamics of workload and sickness absenteeism in firefighter teams. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 29, 525-540.


Rico, R., Gibson, C., Clark, M. y Sánchez-Manzanares, M. (2019). Building team effectiveness through adaptation: Team knowledge and implicit and explicit coordination. Organizational Psychology Review, 9, 71-98. doi: 10.1177/2041386619869972.


Marques-Quinteiro, P., Rico, R., Passos, A. M. & Curral, L. (2019) There is light and there is darkness: On the temporal dynamics of cohesion, coordination, and performance in Business Teams. Frontiers of Psychology, 10, 847. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00847.


Antino, M., Rico, R., & Thatcher, S. (2019). Structuring reality through the faultlines lens: The effects of structure, fairness, and status conflict on the activated faultlines-performance relationship. Academy of Management Journal, 62, 1444–1470.


Uitdewilligen, S., Rico, R. & Waller, M. (2018). Fluid and Stable: Dynamics of Team Interaction Patterns and Adaptive Outcomes. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39, 1113-1128.


Rico, R., Hinsz, V., Davison, R., & Salas, E. (2018). Structural Influences Upon Coordination and Performance in Multiteam Systems. Human Resources Management Review, 28, 332-346.


Ramos-Villagrasa, P., Marques-Quinteiro, P., Navarro, J. & Rico, R. (2018). Teams as Complex Adaptive Systems: Reviewing 17 Years of Research. Small Group Research, 49, 135-176.


Rico, R., Salas, E. Burke, S. & Hinsz, V. (2017). A multilevel model of Multiteam Motivation and Performance. Organizational Psychology Review, 7, 197-226.


Alcover, C.M., Rico, R. Turnley, B., & Bolino, M. (2017). Understanding the changing nature of psychological contracts in 21st century organizations: a multiple-foci exchange relationships approach and proposed framework. Organizational Psychology Review, 7, 4–35.


Alcover, C. M., Rico, R., Turnley, W. H., & Bolino, M. C. (2016). Multi-dependence in the formation and development of the distributed psychological contract. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26, 16-29.


Rodriguez-Sánchez, A. Devloo, T., Anseel, F., Salanova, M. & Rico, R. (2016). What Makes Creative Teams Tick? Cohesion, Engagement and Performance across Creativity Tasks: A Three-Wave Study. Group and Organization Management,42, 521-547.


Aguado, D., Rico, R., Rubio, R., & Fernández, L. (2016). Applicant Reactions to Social Network Web Use in Personnel Selection and Assessment. Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 32, 183-190.


Luan, K. Xie, X., & Rico, R. (2016). Collective Team Identification and External Learning. Small Group Research, 47, 384-405.


Rico, R. (2014). Editorial Letter: Joining Forces for a Better Journal. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 23, 1-2.


Meyer, B., Glenz, A., Antino, M., Rico, R., & González-Romá, V. (2014). Faultlines and Subgroups. A Meta-Review and Measurement Guide. Small Group Research, 45, 633-670.


Aguado, D., Rico, R., Sánchez-Manzanares, M. & Salas, E. (2014). Teamwork competency test (TWCT): A step forward on measuring teamwork competencies. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 18, 101-121.


Ortega, A., van den Bossche, P., Sánchez-Manzanares, M., Rico, R. & Gil, F. (2014). The Influence of Change-Oriented Leadership and Psychological Safety on Team Learning in Healthcare Teams. Journal of Business and Psychology, 29, 311-321.


Rico, R. (2013). Editorial Letter: Publishing at EJWOP. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 22, 1-3.


Ortega, A., Sánchez-Manzanares, M., Gil, F. & Rico, R. (2013). Enhancing team learning in nursing teams through beliefs about interpersonal context. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69, 102-11. 


Rico, R., Sánchez-Manzanares, M., Antino, M. & Lau, D. (2012) Bridging team faultlines by Combining Task Role Assignment and Goal Structure Strategies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 407-420.


Rico, R., Bachrach, D. Sánchez-Manzanares, M. & Collins, B. (2011). The interactive effects of person-focused citizenship behavior, task interdependence and virtuality on team performance. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology 20, 700-726.


Gil, F., Alcover, C.M., Rico, R, & Sánchez-Manzanares, M. (2011). New ways of leadership in work teams. Papeles del Psicólogo, 32, 38-47.


Rico, R., Alcover, C.M., & Tabernero, C. (2011). Work team effectiveness, a review of research from the last decade (1999-2009). Psychology in Spain, 26, 57-79.


Rico, R., Alcover de la Hera, C. M., & Tabernero, C. (2010). Efectividad de los equipos de trabajo: Una revisión de la última década de investigación (1999-2009). Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 26, 47-71.


Ortega, A. Gil, F., Sánchez-Manzanares, M. & Rico, R. (2010). Team learning in virtual project teams. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 13, 267-276.


Rico, R, Alcover, C.M., Sánchez-Manzanares, M. & Gil, F. (2009). The joint relationships of communication behaviors and task interdependence on trust building and change in virtual project teams. Social Science Information 48, 229-255.


Gil, F., Rico, R., & Sánchez-Manzanares, M. (2008). Eficacia de equipos de trabajo. Papeles del Psicólogo, 29, 25-31.


Rico, R., Sánchez-Manzanares, M., Gil, F. & Gibson, C. (2008). Team implicit coordination processes: A team knowledge-based approach. Academy of Management Review 33, 163-184.


Sánchez-Manzanares, M., Rico, R. & Gil, F. (2008). Designing Organizations: Does Expertise Matter? Journal of Business & Psychology, 23, 87-101.


Rico, R., Molleman, E., Sánchez-Manzanares, M. & van der Vegt, G. (2007). The Effects of Diversity Faultlines and Team Task Autonomy on Decision Quality and Social Integration. Journal of Management 33, 111-132. 


Rico, R., Cohen, S.G. & Gil, F. (2006). Efectos de la interdependencia de tarea y la sincronía en las tecnologías de comunicación sobre el rendimiento de los equipos virtuales de trabajo. Psicothema 18, 743-749.


Sánchez-Manzanares, M., Rico, R., Gil, F. & San Martín, R. (2006). Transactive Memory on Decision Making Teams: Implications on Team Effectiveness. Psicothema, pp. 750-756.


Fernández-Ríos, M., Rico, R., San Martín, R. and De la Corte, L. (2005). Spanish Firms Flexibility: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Facets. Psicothema 17, 620-626.


Rico, R. and Cohen, S.G. (2005). Task interdependence and type of communication in virtual teams: implications for performance. Journal of Managerial Psychology 20, 261-274.


Gil, F., Rico, R., Alcover, C. M. and Barrasa, A. (2005). Change-oriented Leadership, Satisfaction, and Performance in Work Groups: Effects of Team Climate and Group Potency. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 20, 312-328.


Barrasa, A; Gil, F; Rico, R & Alcover. C.M. (2004). Change and innovation in organizations: Change-oriented leadership outcomes in team effectiveness. International Journal of Psychology, 39, 335-335.


Fernández-Ríos, M., Rico, R., and San Martín, R. (2004). Organizations as meaning systems: time for clarity. Psicothema 16, 222-228.


Rico, R., Fernández-Ríos, M., Rascado Martínez, P. and Sánchez-Manzanares, M. (2004). Teorías implícitas, diseño organizacional y eficacia. Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 38, 121-130.


Rico, R., Sánchez-Manzanares, M. and Fernández-Ríos, M. (2003). Modelos mentales y diseño organizacional: resultados previos. Encuentros en Psicología Social, 1, 104-110.


Gil, F., Rico, R., Fernández-Ríos, M., Barrasa, A., Alcover, C.M., and Rodriguez, F. (2003). Liderazgo en equipos virtuales. Encuentros en Psicología Social, 1, 101-106.


Rico, R. and Fernández-Ríos, M.  (2002). Diseño de organizaciones como proceso simbólico. Psicothema, 14, 415-425.


Fernández-Ríos, M., Sánchez, J.C. and Rico, R. (2001). Procesos estratégicos y estructura organizacional: implicaciones para el rendimiento. Psicothema, 13, 19-39.


Fernández-Ríos, M., Rico, R. and Cid, B. (1996). Selección bibliográfica sobre mediación laboral. Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 12, 361-384


Fernández-Ríos, M. and Rico, R. (1996). Formación de mediadores. Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 12, 221-230.