Teamwork boosts performance for a fixed task but not for conceiving new models

Evidence

In general, teamwork does in fact improve performance, if it is done under certain conditions detailed long ago by social scientists. In particular, it has been established that teamwork is especially successful in improving performativity within the framework of a given model, that is, for the implementation of a task. Its advantages seem less certain when the need is to “imagine” new models, in other words, on the level of their conception. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 381

Categorization

• XREF: Anticipates the familiar creativity-research finding that brainstorming groups underperform in idea generation — a cross-domain empirical parallel. — connects to: Continuous partial attention becomes a survival tool when teammates compensate for blind spots — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 524
• QUESTION: What social scientists does Lyotard mean by ‘conditions detailed long ago’? The sourcing is vague; worth identifying the empirical work he gestures at.