Network Structure and Employee Creativity in a Heterogeneous Team

摘要：

　　This paper investigates the relationships between individual creativity, social network position, and knowledge sharing in a heterogeneous team with personnel from four different companies to complete a software outsourcing project.Our research model is based on a theoretical construction attained from the analysis of previous frameworks proposed in the literature.Based on the survey data of the team members, we construct the advice social network, extract employee network centrality, and obtain employee behavioural variables.We find that a positive and strong relationship between knowledge sharing and creativity.The relationship between network centrality and creativity is also positive, but the relationship is moderated by knowledge sharing.Based on the findings, we propose measures and strategies for the hosting company to effectively coordinate the heterogeneous team.

关键词： creativity knowledge sharing employee social networks heterogeneous team

作者: Jianping Peng Taiye Luo Jing Quan Peiwen Guo

作者单位: Sun Yat-Sen Business School, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China 510275;Sun Yat-Sen Xinhua Coll Sun Yat-Sen Xinhua College, Guangzhou, China 510275 Franklin P.Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD 21801, USA

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Seventeenth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business(第17届武汉电子商务国际会议)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 398-405

在线出版日期: 2018-05-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）