He Hui, Bai Yan, Gao Junguang, Xie Jinqiang
Business School, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China.
Business School, Beijing Wuzi University, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 8;11:551970. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.551970. eCollection 2020.
The study examines how R&D staff improvisation capability is formed based on theory of micro-foundations, that is, how R&D individuals, experience and external knowledge gathering, and minimal structure interact and work on their improvisation capability together. The results show that: (1) R&D staff's experience and external knowledge gathering have linear influences on their improvisation capability, respectively; (2) minimal structure has a curvilinear impact on improvisation capability; (3) minimal structure has a curvilinear moderating effect on the relationship between experience, external knowledge gathering and improvisation capability, respectively. The study suggests that managers keep minimal structure at the moderate level to promote their R&D people's improvisation capability.
该研究基于微观基础理论，考察了研发人员的即兴创作能力是如何形成的，即研发个体、经验与外部知识获取以及最小结构是如何相互作用并共同影响其即兴创作能力的。研究结果表明：（1）研发人员的经验和外部知识获取分别对其即兴创作能力有线性影响；（2）最小结构对即兴创作能力有曲线影响；（3）最小结构分别对经验、外部知识获取与即兴创作能力之间的关系有曲线调节作用。该研究建议管理者将最小结构保持在适度水平，以提升其研发人员的即兴创作能力。
