Team Dynamics: Entrepreneurship Versus Music. What an Entrepreneurial Team can Learn.

Literature regarding entrepreneurial teams has risen the last decade (Fayolle et al., 2014). Researchers study entrepreneurial teams as a part of a big company, even though an entrepreneurial team usually does not evolve under the context of a large and stable organization. It mostly works and flourish under circumstances of instability, lack of income, uncertainty, innovation, creativity, problem solving. A music band works under the same circumstances. Music bands already have been used as an example in researching how organizations can be more innovative and creative (Kamoche;2003) and some researchers claim that team dynamics of an early stage entrepreneurial team resembles the dynamics of a music band. Using a qualitative approach, entrepreneurial teams and music bands of 3-5 members, where interviewed in order to shed light on team dynamics and team spirit. This empirical research attempts to identify the differences between the two and point out positive aspects of music bands' team spirit. The results extract six variables, 'discussion with the team', 'give space to everyone', 'practice', 'perform as a unity', 'trust', 'everyone acts as a composer/leader' which seems to enhance band's cohesion and performance, as also can help entrepreneurial teams tackle their team dynamics in a way that provides a more efficient outcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]