Thomas Taiyi Yan, Vijaya Venkataramani, Chaoying Tang, Giles Hirst
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Abstract
Organizations are increasingly using teams to stimulate innovation. Often, these teams share knowledge and information with each other to help achieve their goals, while also competing for resources and striving to outperform each other. Importantly, based on their industry, the nature of work, or prior history, some teams may face more competition from peer teams than others. Our research examines how teams' competitive relations with other teams in the organization operate in tandem with their collaborative inter-team information exchange relations in impacting their innovation. Using two studies-a field study of 73 knowledge-intensive teams in high-tech engineering firms and a team-based network experimental study of 162 teams-we find that a high degree of overall competition with many peer teams reduces a focal team's ability to acquire and utilize diverse knowledge from these teams (i.e., inter-team knowledge integration), thereby hindering team innovation. However, applying insights from network structural hole theory, we find that when a focal team occupies a brokerage position in the inter-team information exchange network, this can help buffer the effects of competition in getting access to knowledge resources from other teams, thus enabling their innovation. Additionally, we find that focal broker teams' dealmaking and network obstruction behaviors explain these effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
各组织越来越多地利用团队来激励创新。通常情况下,这些团队相互分享知识和信息,以帮助实现各自的目标,同时也相互竞争资源,力争超越对方。重要的是,基于其行业、工作性质或以往历史,一些团队可能比其他团队面临更多来自同行团队的竞争。我们的研究探讨了团队与组织中其他团队的竞争关系如何与团队间的协作信息交流关系共同影响团队的创新。通过两项研究--一项是对高科技工程公司中 73 个知识密集型团队的实地研究,另一项是对 162 个团队进行的基于团队网络的实验研究--我们发现,与许多同行团队的高度整体竞争会降低重点团队从这些团队中获取和利用多样化知识的能力(即团队间知识整合),从而阻碍团队创新。然而,运用网络结构洞理论的洞察力,我们发现,当焦点团队在团队间信息交流网络中占据中介地位时,这有助于缓冲从其他团队获取知识资源的竞争影响,从而促进团队创新。此外,我们还发现,焦点经纪人团队的交易行为和网络阻碍行为可以解释这些效应。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)。
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Applied Psychology® focuses on publishing original investigations that contribute new knowledge and understanding to fields of applied psychology (excluding clinical and applied experimental or human factors, which are better suited for other APA journals). The journal primarily considers empirical and theoretical investigations that enhance understanding of cognitive, motivational, affective, and behavioral psychological phenomena in work and organizational settings. These phenomena can occur at individual, group, organizational, or cultural levels, and in various work settings such as business, education, training, health, service, government, or military institutions. The journal welcomes submissions from both public and private sector organizations, for-profit or nonprofit. It publishes several types of articles, including:
1.Rigorously conducted empirical investigations that expand conceptual understanding (original investigations or meta-analyses).
2.Theory development articles and integrative conceptual reviews that synthesize literature and generate new theories on psychological phenomena to stimulate novel research.
3.Rigorously conducted qualitative research on phenomena that are challenging to capture with quantitative methods or require inductive theory building.