When and how group diversity facilitate innovativeness? The roles of knowledge heterogeneity and governance

IF 3.2 4区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Knowledge Management Research & Practice Pub Date : 2021-11-26 DOI:10.1080/14778238.2021.2004950

F. Tsai

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT Recruiting a group of people from diverse backgrounds does not necessarily ensure collective innovativeness. This paper examines two issues regarding the interplay among professional (i.e., education and functional diversity) background diversity (PBD) as an ex ante composite group attribute, knowledge heterogeneity (KH) as collective knowledge structure, and knowledge governance (KG) as a managerial mechanism, for explaining collective innovativeness emergence. First, the transformation from PBD to KH, and then to group innovativeness is investigated. Second, the effects of KG in such transformational relationships is examined. Data were collected at multiple time points and analysed. Results demonstrate that PBD may impact group innovativeness only indirectly through the mediation of the deeper-level and ex post KH. Moreover, knowledge governance moderates such aforementioned mediation effect. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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群体多样性何时以及如何促进创新?知识异质性和治理的作用

摘要：招募一群来自不同背景的人并不一定能确保集体创新。本文考察了两个问题，即作为事前复合群体属性的专业（即教育和功能多样性）背景多样性（PBD）、作为集体知识结构的知识异质性（KH）和作为管理机制的知识治理（KG）之间的相互作用，以解释集体创新的出现。首先，研究了从PBD到KH，再到群体创新的转变。其次，考察了KG在这种转换关系中的作用。在多个时间点收集数据并进行分析。研究结果表明，PBD只能通过更深层次和事后KH的中介作用间接影响群体创新能力。此外，知识治理调节了上述中介作用。讨论了理论和实践意义。

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7.00

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15.60%

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期刊介绍： Knowledge management is a term that has worked its way into the mainstream of both academic and business arenas since it was first coined in the 1980s. Interest has increased rapidly during the last decade and shows no signs of abating. The current state of the knowledge management field is that it encompasses four overlapping areas: •Managing knowledge (creating/acquiring, sharing, retaining, storing, using, updating, retiring) •Organisational learning •Intellectual capital •Knowledge economics Within (and across) these, knowledge management has to address issues relating to technology, people, culture and systems.