"The article aims to shed light on teamwork in Finland, where many institutional factors mould employees' experiences of it. Representative survey data from Finnish workplaces are analysed from the frameworks of contextual, positive and critical accounts on teamwork. A qualitative analysis of the role of centralized income agreements and the quality of the industrial relations gives evidence to support the contextual accounts. The results of the survey tell how the experiences of effective teamwork are related to the degree of autonomy of the teams, employees' discretion, the possibility to utilize one's skills and the quality of social relations within the team, and thus support positive accounts. On the other hand, the results of the survey relate the team members' experiences of working harder than non-members, supporting critical accounts."

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