Team learning behaviours to foster innovation implementation: A qualitative study on the perceptions of work team members
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2020-10-13
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en
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Organizations are increasingly adopting work teams as organizational structure to develop innovations and so, rely on the innovative work behaviour of work teams. Despite that innovation literature identified several team level variables that contribute positively to innovation at the workplace, research on behaviour in innovation implementation within teams is very limited. One study suggests that team learning behaviours influence team innovative work behaviour positively, which attributes to innovation development within an organization.
Since the relationship between team learning and innovation implementation has limited empirical support, the present study focused on qualitatively exploring the relationship between team learning behaviours and innovation implementation within work teams through the experience of work team members. A critical realist approach is adopted as methodology in order to establish patterns and compare results across work teams. Data is collected through ten semi-structured interviews with respondents belonging to two different work teams and subsequently analysed through both deductive and inductive coding. Results showed widely differing experiences with team innovation implementation and team learning behaviours across and within the teams. Yet, the present study confirms that sharing, co-construction, constructive conflict, reflexivity, team activity and boundary crossing have a positive effect on team implementation behaviour
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen