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1School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Psychology Research and Behavior Management
|January 5, 2022
Summary
Teams can improve their ability to improvise in uncertain markets by enhancing team expertise location awareness and knowledge integration. Shared leadership further supports this process, enabling better responses to dynamic environments.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Behavior
- Team Dynamics
- Information Processing Theory
Background:
- Market uncertainties create unexpected work environment challenges.
- Effective team response requires dynamic integration of member expertise.
- Information processing theory provides a framework for understanding team adaptation.
Purpose of the Study:
- Investigate how teams integrate member expertise for market uncertainty.
- Propose and examine team expertise location awareness's impact on knowledge integration and improvisation.
- Assess the role of shared leadership in facilitating team resource utilization.
Main Methods:
- Multi-source design using data from an IT company in southern China.
- Sample of 86 IT teams.
- Hierarchical regression and bootstrapping methods for hypothesis testing.
Main Results:
- Team expertise location awareness positively impacts knowledge integration, enhancing improvisation.
- Knowledge integration mediates the relationship between expertise location awareness and improvisation.
- Shared leadership moderates the mediation effect.
Conclusions:
- Information processing theory applied to team improvisation research.
- Understanding how teams utilize and integrate knowledge for effective improvisation.
- Discusses theoretical and practical implications for team expertise, knowledge integration, shared leadership, and improvisation.
Keywords:
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