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This study asked members of teams to identify the factors that most contributed and most hindered the effectiveness of their team. Seventy-five team members from 13 different work teams in different organizations participated in the study. The results showed that the factors that most hinder a team's performance are external to the team and those that most contribute to its effectiveness are internal to the team. Thus, support via organizational contextual variables are necessary but not sufficient conditions to promote team effectiveness. The factors that put teams into the ‘effective’ category are those variables that are specific to the team members themselves.

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In order to investigate the management, marketing and development of tourism in peripheral areas, this chapter draws upon empirical evidence taken from six European case-study regions, all exhibiting varying degrees of conventional peripherality. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between accessibility and the type of tourism product available and also on the relationship between the product and forms of vertical and horizontal networks.

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