Unraveling the double-edged effect of inter-team collaboration on team performance: the moderating role of interdisciplined collaboration

Inter-team collaboration;Interdisciplinarity

Son, Jooyeon

关键词: Inter-team collaboration;    Interdisciplinarity;   

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美国|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

The current dissertation explores how inter-team collaboration affects team-level outcomes, specifically team knowledge creation and group averaged turnover intention. Using a sample of 398 individuals in 55 teams from two multidisciplinary research institutes in a large public university, the current study suggests that the level of inter-team collaboration has a dual effect on team outcomes, such that it has a positive association with team-level knowledge creation as well as increasing turnover intention. Also, I argue that the level of interdisciplinarity as a contextual factor that affects the relationship between team collaboration and both knowledge creation and turnover intention, such that, as the level of interdisciplinarity increases, the positive impact of inter-team collaboration on knowledge creation/turnover intention will be strengthened. Finally, I suggest two mediators (i.e., innovation climate and job interdependence) to investigate the black box of the relationship between inter-team collaboration and team outcomes.