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A Study On Influencing Mechanism Of R&D Team Creativity Climates To Team Creativity Based On Team Shared Mental Models

Posted on:2011-07-24Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360302478373Subject:Management Science and Engineering
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With the rising of Wiki economics and open innovation, R &D team should not only depend on the strength of the members' creativity, but also focus on the interaction process and the synergy of inside and outside resources in order to stimulate and enhance R &D team creativity.Opening the black-box of mechanism of R &D team creativity by in-depth analysis of the intermediary mechanism of team shared mental models, this dissertation aims to answer the foundamental question of this research, that "how creativity climates influence R &D team creativity". Specifically, this research question is going to be answered from four aspects: (1)What are the new contents and new features of creativity climates in the context of open innovation? And what are the relationships between creativity climates and R &D team creativity? (2) What are the structural and functional features of team shared mental models which are the latent cognitive structure behind the team creative process? And what are the relationships between shared mental models and R &D team creativity? (3)How do the R &D team members stimulate and improve R &D team creativity by perception and integration of creativity climates? Also, how do the shared mental models play intermediary roles between creativity climates and R &D team creativity? (4) What are the improve mechanisms of R &D team creativity by construction of shared mental models and integration of the creativity climates.In order to pursue the above questions, the dissertation follows the process of "creativity climates—shared mental models—R &D team creativity", and is conducted at the team level. Then, an empirical study with 72 high-tech enterprises and 215 R &D team form Zhejiang , Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Shenzhen is made to confirm the theory design and answer above questiones.First, in the background of open innovation in China, the study obtains eight factors dimension-structure of creativity climates by exploratory factor analysis, and confirms the reliability and validity of eight factors dimension-structure of creativity climates by structural equation modeling .Then, the study final confirmation the optimization model of eight factors dimension-structure of creativity climates by comparing the fitting data of alternative models among single-factor model, two-factor model and four-factor model. So, the conclusion of the important compositions of creativity climates are eight factors dimension-structure such as "the objectives of task", "the specification of task", "organizational guarantee", "the support of leadership", "the expectations of task role", "the diversity of team members", "the dependence of jobs", "the interactive activities of team members ". Eight factors are the new contents and new features of creativity climates of creativity climates. And they have significant impacts on R &D team creativity.Second, in the background of open innovation in China, the study make a theoretical idea of the structural dimension of team shared mental models of R &D team by considering the characteristics content between "overlapping or consistency" and "distribution or complement". On the basis of the above-mentioned study, the study obtains two factors dimension-structure of team shared mental models by exploratory factor analysis, and confirms the reliability and validity of two factors dimension-structure of team shared mental models by structural equation modeling.Then, the study final confirmation the optimization model of two factors dimension-structure of team shared mental models by comparing the fitting data of alternative models among single-factor model, three-factor model and four-factor model.So, the conclusion of the important compositions of team shared mental models are two factors dimension-structure such as "assignment-based shared mental models" and "cooperation-based shared mental models". Two factors dimension-structure of team shared mental models also have significant impacts on R &D team creativity.Third, on the basis of the above-mentioned study, the study confirms the intermediary mechanism of team shared mental models between creativity climates and R &D team creativity by structural equation modeling. In the context of analysis the control effect of development stages of R &D team, the study final confirmation the optimization model of creativity climates influence R &D team creativity by intermediary activity of team shared mental models after the adjusting about four stage models. The study is supported by the following conclusions: Creativity climates such as "the objectives of task", "the specification of task" and "organizational guarantee" indirect impact on R &D team creativity by constructing "assignment-based shared mental models". Similarly, creativity climates such as "the support of leadership", "the expectations of task role" and "the interactive activities of team members" indirect impact on R &D team creativity by constructing "cooperation-based shared mental models". While, "cooperation-based shared mental models" not only direct impact on R &D team creativity, but also it indirect impact on R &D team creativity by constructing "assignment-based shared mental models". Comparing the size of the standardization point of the path, indirect effect is stronger than the direct effect. Although creativity climates of "the diversity of team members" positive direct impact on R &D team creativity, it also negative direct impact on "cooperation-based shared mental models". The team should reduce the negative effect from "the diversity of team members" to "cooperation-based shared mental models" by some management means such as strengthening the trust among members, promoting the interaction activities among members, coordinating through the team leader etc. Then, creativity climates of "the dependence of jobs" direct impact on R &D team creativity, but it also indirect impact on "cooperation-based shared mental models" by creativity climates such as "the interactive activities of team members", "the support of leadership" and "the expectations of task role".Finally, the mechanism of R &D team creativity climates influence R &D team creativity based on shared mental model is summarized. Based on the research results, the dissertation proposes dynamic improvement mechanisms of R &D team creativity, covering the collaborative development of "assignment-based shared mental models" and "cooperation-based shared mental models" by integration of R &D team creativity climates.This dissertation contributes to theories of team creativity in the following four perspectives: (1)The new content is exploring the reconstruction of R &D team creativity climates in the context of open innovation. (2) The new perspective is extracting connotation and characteristics of R &D team shared mental models. (3) The new method is revealing the mechanism of R &D team creativity based on team shared mental models. (4) The new application is constructing the path and mean of improving the R &D team creativity by integration of R &D team creativity climates based on the collaborative development of team shared mental models.As an explorative study, there are still some limitations in this research, which is concluded at the end of dissertation with the prospect of future research about team creativity. The dissertation could pave the way for further study about team creativity in the context of innovation in China.
Keywords/Search Tags:R &D team, Team Creativity, Team Creativity Climates, Team Shared Mental Models, Open Innovation
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