Cross-functional Teams and their Role in Increasing Competitiveness of the Organizational Partnerships

Abstract

In this paper we review the role of the cross-functional teams for increasing competitiveness of the variousorganizational partnerships. The present complexity of the international business environment, the high competitionand the economic globalization push many organizations to seek for new organizational partnerships, in order tofaster reach their goals. Such organizational partnerships may be the networks of enterprises and clusters. For both ofthem, the main factor to increase competitiveness is the cross-functional teams (CFT) and their effective team work.Through communication and mutual understanding, the CFT can overcome barriers between member entities and leadto better economic parameters. The main employed method was a survey of the management literature about CFT.The result is a clear presentation of the CFT and of their effective work manner to reach a competitive level forvarious organizational partnerships.

Keywords

• cross-functional teams
• competitiveness
• effectiveness
• network