Identifying the Causes of Team Effectiveness Problem in a New Venture Team. Case Study: Agri-Cultured

Abstract

Entrepreneurship activities around the world are growing. Entrepreneurs carry their entrepreneurial activities by creating a new venture called startup. This new venture called startup is by no means an individual sport. Ussually the founder gather a group of individual when founding a startup. Therefore, team effectiveness is an important aspect in the entrepreneurial process of creating a succesful startup itself. In this study, the author wants to explore the causes of team effectiveness problems in the startup called ‘Agri-Cultured’. AgriCultured is a startup founded by four entrepreneurship students from ITB. The CEO of Agri-Cultured states that the idea of the project itself has a lot of potential, but the team is not good enough to be able to maximize the potential that the project has. The project will use the Team Effectiveness Questionnaire (TEQ), which has eight dimensions of team effectiveness. These dimensions are interconnected and will directly impact the New Venture Team’s effectiveness. In doing the research, the author starts by conducting a preliminary questionnaire using the TEQ, which will be filled by the members of AgriCultured. Based on analyzing the result from the TEQ, the author will conduct an in-depth interview that will be analyzed using qualitative descriptive method.

Keywords: Team Effectiveness, Team Effectiveness Problem, New Venture Team