A social composition view of team creativity: : the role of member nationality-heterogeneous ties outside of the team

• Autores: Jill E. Perry-Smith, Christina E. Shalley
• Localización: Organization Science, ISSN-e 1526-5455, Vol. 25, Nº. 5, 2014, págs. 1434-1452
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We sought to understand team member informal social network ties outside of the team as a way to achieve cognitive variation within the team, thereby facilitating creativity. Specifically, we take a configural perspective, which emphasizes individual team members and the heterogeneity and strength of their outside ties. We theorize that these characteristics of outside ties are important because they amend members� schemas and the team�s cognitive architecture. Results of a study of 82 long-term MBA project teams suggest that both outside ties with nationality-heterogeneous individuals and weak outside ties independently facilitate team creativity. In addition, nationality-heterogeneous outside ties that are weak rather than strong are associated with higher team creative performance.