When and how does functional diversity influence team innovation? The mediating role of knowledge sharing and the moderation role of affect-based trust in a team
When and how does functional diversity influence team innovation? The mediating role of knowledge sharing and the moderation role of affect-based trust in a team
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DOI：
10.1177/0018726715615684
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发表时间：
2016-07-01
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5.7
通讯作者：
Shi, Junqi
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作者：
Cheung, Siu Yin;Gong, Yaping;Shi, Junqi
之前关于功能多样性和团队创新之间关系的研究结果并不确定。这项研究旨在通过调查功能多样性如何影响团队创新以及这种影响可能发生或可能不发生的时间来协调文献中的混合发现。将团队视为信息处理者的观点表明，不同职能的团队可能会利用他们的知识优势，通过知识共享来产生创新。然而，知识共享和随后的团队创新并不一定发生在职能不同的团队中。借鉴群体理论中的激励信息加工理论，我们提出团队中基于情感的信任通过知识共享来调节功能多样性对团队创新的影响。基于96个研发团队的研究结果表明，当团队中基于情感的信任较低时，功能多样性通过知识共享与团队创新之间存在负的间接关系，并且随着团队中基于情感的信任水平的提高，这种关系变得不那么负。当团队中基于情感的信任很高时，这种关系并不显著。
Findings from prior research on the relationship between functional diversity and team innovation have been inconclusive. This study aims to reconcile the mixed findings in the literature by investigating how functional diversity may influence team innovation and when such influence may or may not occur. The view of teams as information processors suggests that functionally diverse teams may capitalize on their knowledge benefits to produce innovations through knowledge sharing. However, knowledge sharing and subsequent team innovation do not necessarily occur in functionally diverse teams. Drawing on the motivated information processing in groups theory, we propose that affect-based trust in a team moderates the effects of functional diversity on team innovation (via knowledge sharing). The results based on a sample of 96 research and development teams indicate that functional diversity had a negative indirect relationship with team innovation via knowledge sharing when affect-based trust in a team was low, and this relationship became less negative as the level of affect-based trust in a team increased. The relationship was not significant when affect-based trust in a team was high.