Translating External Knowledge to Team Creativity in Turbulent Environments: The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Integration

Men, Chenghao; Luo, Jie; Fong, Patrick S.W.; Huo, Weiwei

doi:10.1002/jocb.371

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“…With more ideas generated by team members, team creativity may be benefited (Pirola Merlo & Mann, 2004). Secondly, knowledge seeking motivates the knowledge integration process (Zahra et al, 2020), which is believed to be beneficial to team creativity (Men et al, 2020). In fact, it takes time to transfer an individual’s knowledge into team creation (Al Ahbabi et al, 2019).…”

Section: Theoretical Background and Hypothesesmentioning

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How Does Individual-Level Envy Affect Team Creativity? Effects of Knowledge Seeking and Moral Reflection

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Where there is a team, there is envy emotion among team members. Prior studies argue that two opposite types of envy—benign envy and malicious envy differently influence team members’ interactions, thus impact team creativity differently. However, little literature has discussed whether envy has a direct influence on team creativity. This research is conducted to narrow this literature gap. Moreover, if their relationship was verified, the mechanism needs to be further explored. Previous studies have shown negative public perception of envy and strong behavioral motivation function of it. Therefore, a morality-related variable—moral reflection, and a competition-related variable—knowledge seeking are introduced as mediating variables. To test the relationships among the above variables, an experiment with 74 MBA students’ participation was conducted. The results show the positive relationship between benign envy and team creativity, while malicious envy gets the opposite result. Besides, knowledge seeking and moral reflection are proven to be bridges connecting envy and team creativity. Envy is more complicated than what previous studies have found. It has positive sides to team creativity.

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Section: Theoretical Background and Hypothesesmentioning

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“…An organization's knowledge base is the cornerstone for its own production and development, for carrying out innovation processes, and for creating value. Due to the changing times and technologies, organizational innovation requires more knowledge to meet the needs of customers, industry, society, and even national development, adapt to complex and dynamic changes in the external environment, and meet fierce global competition (Men et al, 2020;Subramanian et al, 2018). Since the knowledge and human resources within the organization are limited, and much of the knowledge that is beneficial for the organization to realize innovative ideas is located outside the organization (Gassmann et al, 2010), external knowledge becomes a key knowledge source and innovation resource for the organization.…”

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Partners' knowledge utilization and exploratory innovation: the moderating effect of competitive and collaborative relationships

Xiao

Bao

2022

IJOPM

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PurposePartners' knowledge is an essential source of knowledge for organizations in the collaborative innovation. Exploratory innovation is an innovation strategy that is significant to the organization and is characterized by learning and absorbing new knowledge for new products and technology. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of partners' knowledge utilization on exploratory innovation and to analyze further the moderating effect of previous competitive and collaborative relationships between organizations on the above relationships.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the patent data of 1,636 organizations in the nano-biopharmaceutical field collaboratively from 1998 to 2020 are used as a sample. The knowledge networks and collaboration networks are constructed through the patent data. A negative binomial regression method is used to conduct the empirical study.FindingsThe results indicate that partners' knowledge utilization has an inverted U-shaped effect on exploratory innovation. The competitive relationship steepens the inverted U-shape effect of partners' knowledge utilization on exploratory innovation and makes the turning point to the left. The collaborative relationship steepens the inverted U-shape effect of partners' knowledge utilization on exploratory innovation and makes the turning point to the right.Originality/valueThis study is the first to examine the impact of partners' knowledge utilization on exploratory innovation and to explore the role of the competitive and collaborative relationships between organizations. It extends current research in organizational innovation and knowledge management by providing insight into partners' knowledge utilization.

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“…Suitable cognitive proximity (i.e., being able to understand each other, but not having exactly similar viewpoints) is important to progress novel knowledge. Being too similar with fairly identical knowledge bases and experiences inhibits divergent thinking [26].…”

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“…Trust and security are key aspects in interaction that can eventually lead into an innovation, as explained in the innovation process model in Section 2 and by many scholars [26,36]. The respondents' opinions varied a lot on whether one can create trustful relationships at a virtual platform (40% agreed, 44% did not know and 16% disagreed; Table 2).…”

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The User Preferences of VirBELA Virtual 3D Platform at the SHIFT Event Organized in Finland

Jauhiainen

2021

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought abrupt changes for international events that promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Usually, such events bring together thousands of participants to provide them with information about ongoing and emerging trends in their fields, to network with old and new colleagues and get ideas that can develop into innovations. In 2020, most such events were cancelled. Few events were organized virtually, that is without participants physically coming together. Compared with physical face-to-face events, virtual events reduce the travel-related emissions and consumption, thereby supporting sustainability. This article studies the SHIFT entrepreneurship and innovation event held virtually in October 2020 and organized in Finland. For this article, the author gathered data about user preferences from surveying participants, speakers, presenters and organizers, almost all of whom were first-time users of VirBELA’s 3D virtual platform. Furthermore, participant observation and interviews via avatars were conducted during the event. At the virtual event, 68% of respondents talked with former acquaintances, and 68% also talked with new acquaintances, and 53% opinioned that using the virtual platform can support the emergence of innovations. Virtual entrepreneurship and innovation events have potential to support networking, novel ideas and thus innovations, but issues of trust and confidentiality arose concerns among some participants.

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Translating External Knowledge to Team Creativity in Turbulent Environments: The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Integration

Cited by 12 publications

References 58 publications

How Does Individual-Level Envy Affect Team Creativity? Effects of Knowledge Seeking and Moral Reflection

How Does Individual-Level Envy Affect Team Creativity? Effects of Knowledge Seeking and Moral Reflection

Partners' knowledge utilization and exploratory innovation: the moderating effect of competitive and collaborative relationships

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The User Preferences of VirBELA Virtual 3D Platform at the SHIFT Event Organized in Finland

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