Ye Suyang, Chen Min
School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China.
School of Business, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, People's Republic of China.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2021 Dec 19;14:2135-2146. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S341685. eCollection 2021.
The uncertainties in the market have led to an increasing number of uncertainties and unexpected situations in the work environment of organizations. Based on information processing theory, we investigate how teams can dynamically integrate the expertise of their members to better respond to an uncertain market environment. We propose an important team cognition: team expertise location awareness and point out its unique impact on knowledge integration and thus on improvisation capabilities. In addition, we argue that shared leadership facilitates the use of team recognition resources by teams.
This study adopts a multi-source design approach and collects data from an information technology (IT) company that provides apps of voice socialization and game for foreign markets in southern China. Our sample comprised 86 IT teams, and hierarchical regression and bootstrapping methods are also employed to test the hypotheses.
This study reveals that (1) team's expertise location awareness positively influences the team's knowledge integration ability which in turn enhances the team's improvisational ability; (2) team's knowledge integration mediates the effect of team's expertise location awareness and team's improvisational ability; (3) shared leadership moderated this above mediation effect.
In this paper, we introduce information processing theory into team improvisation research to understand why some teams can effectively utilize and integrate their members' knowledge and information and further contribute to effective team improvisation. These results' theoretical and practical implications for team expertise location awareness, team knowledge integration, shared leadership, and team improvisation are discussed.
市场的不确定性导致组织工作环境中的不确定性和意外情况日益增多。基于信息处理理论，我们研究团队如何动态整合成员的专业知识，以更好地应对不确定的市场环境。我们提出了一个重要的团队认知：团队专业知识定位意识，并指出其对知识整合以及对即兴创作能力的独特影响。此外，我们认为共享领导力有助于团队利用团队认可资源。
本研究采用多源设计方法，从中国南方一家为国外市场提供语音社交和游戏应用程序的信息技术（IT）公司收集数据。我们的样本包括86个IT团队，并采用层次回归和自抽样法来检验假设。
本研究表明：（1）团队的专业知识定位意识对团队的知识整合能力有积极影响，进而提高团队的即兴创作能力；（2）团队的知识整合在团队的专业知识定位意识和团队的即兴创作能力之间起中介作用；（3）共享领导力调节上述中介作用。
在本文中，我们将信息处理理论引入团队即兴创作研究，以理解为什么一些团队能够有效地利用和整合其成员的知识和信息，并进一步促进有效的团队即兴创作。讨论了这些结果对团队专业知识定位意识、团队知识整合、共享领导力和团队即兴创作的理论和实践意义。
