The role of team behavioral integration and cohesion in shaping individual improvisation

Sustainability in SMEs: Top Management Teams Behavioral Integration as Source of Innovativeness

“…Following [10], we excluded surveys with many missing values and surveys from SMEs that had TMT member response rates of less than 50%. Accordingly, 160 usable and completed responses from 40 TMTs were included in the final dataset [13] (4 TMT member from 40 SMEs). Considering previous studies conducted in the TMT context, our sample size was within the acceptable range of 20-100 teams [5,13,29,34,53,[75][76][77][78].…”

“…Despite the growing recognition of the importance of behavioral integration, our understanding about the major consequences of this phenomenon at the TMT level is not yet complete [6,10,11,13]. Consistent with the call for paper of [1] to extend the study of how behavioral integration influences TMT outcomes as a meaningful unit of analysis, our model focuses on two likely consequences of this construct, namely TMT innovativeness and sustainability orientation.…”

“…For instance, [20] found that TMT heterogeneity was an important determinant of a firm's innovative decisions, and [21] found that the higher the proportion of TMT members with finance backgrounds, the more acquisitions companies make. In this line of research, TMT behavioral integration, one of the personal characteristics of TMTs, has received a great deal of attention from researchers in recent years [4,6,7,13]. It is important to explore the consequence of TMT behavioral integration because a behaviorally integrated team usually makes better decisions [6] and provides better service quality [8].…”

“…It is important to explore the consequence of TMT behavioral integration because a behaviorally integrated team usually makes better decisions [6] and provides better service quality [8]. This behavior enhances team members' improvisational skills [13] and makes it possible for firms to jointly pursue both exploitative and exploratory orientations [10,11], ultimately improving both human resource performance and economic performance [8].…”

Travail d’ébauche interdisciplinaire : peut-on parler simplement d’un processus complexe ?

“…Alimenter sa réflexion des idées des autres est indispensable à l'activité scientifique. Cependant, un des éléments contribuant à la cohé-sion du groupe est la reconnaissance du travail individuel (Magni et al, 2009). Actuellement, ces deux éléments se trouvent en tension dans le travail d'ébauche interdisciplinaire.…”