TY - JOUR
T1 - Inter-team coordination, information elaboration, and performance in teams
T2 - The moderating effect of knowledge integration capability
AU - Xie, Xiao Yun
AU - Ling, Chu Ding
AU - Liu, Wu
AU - Wei, Junjie
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Peng-Fei Fan, Qiao-Ting Hu, Yan Liu, Lin-Fei Wu and Yingjie Yuan (listed alphabetically) for their generous support and constructive feedback to this research. We thank Associate Editor Wei He and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments throughout the review process. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 72102226, 92146003, 71772159 and 71572178).
Funding Information:
Dr. Xiao-Yun Xie is a professor in School of Management, Zhejiang University, China. His research interest covers learning behavior, identification and intra-group conflict under teamwork setting, which is awarded four research grants so far by the National Scientific Foundation of China. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Ethics, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Small Group Research, Group Dynamics-Theory, Research, and Practice, and Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
Funding Information:
We thank Peng-Fei Fan, Qiao-Ting Hu, Yan Liu, Lin-Fei Wu and Yingjie Yuan (listed alphabetically) for their generous support and constructive feedback to this research. We thank Associate Editor Wei He and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments throughout the review process. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 72102226, 92146003, 71772159 and 71572178).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Organizational teams increasingly engage in inter-team coordination activities. Though past literature suggests that inter-team coordination benefits team performance, recent studies reveal that teams may in fact fail to reap such performance benefits. To investigate the boundary condition as well as the process underpinning the relationship between inter-team coordination and team performance, we draw on the knowledge integration model and develop a mediated moderation model. In particular, we propose that team information elaboration mediates the interaction effect of inter-team coordination and knowledge integration capability on team performance such that the indirect relationship is stronger for teams with a high knowledge integration capability. Two field survey studies support our hypothetical model. Based on these findings, we further discuss the theoretical and practical implications of this research.
AB - Organizational teams increasingly engage in inter-team coordination activities. Though past literature suggests that inter-team coordination benefits team performance, recent studies reveal that teams may in fact fail to reap such performance benefits. To investigate the boundary condition as well as the process underpinning the relationship between inter-team coordination and team performance, we draw on the knowledge integration model and develop a mediated moderation model. In particular, we propose that team information elaboration mediates the interaction effect of inter-team coordination and knowledge integration capability on team performance such that the indirect relationship is stronger for teams with a high knowledge integration capability. Two field survey studies support our hypothetical model. Based on these findings, we further discuss the theoretical and practical implications of this research.
KW - Inter-team coordination
KW - Knowledge integration capability
KW - Knowledge integration model
KW - Team information elaboration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130707942&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.05.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.05.002
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85130707942
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 149
SP - 149
EP - 160
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
ER -