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How and when team regulatory focus influences team innovation and member creativity

Ci-Rong Li (School of Management, Jilin University, Changchun, China)
Chun-Xuan Li (School of Management, Jilin University, Changchun, China)
Chen-Ju Lin (Department of Marketing and Distribution Management, Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology, Hualien, Taiwan)

Personnel Review

ISSN: 0048-3486

Article publication date: 5 February 2018

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to test how team regulatory focus may relate to individual creativity and team innovation; and address the fit/misfit issue of team regulatory focus and team bureaucracy.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors collected data from 377 members and their leaders within 56 R&D teams in two Taiwanese companies.

Findings

A team promotion focus was positively related, whereas a team prevention focus was negatively related, to both team innovation and member creativity through team perspective taking and employee information elaboration, respectively. Furthermore, team bureaucracy played a moderating role that suppressed the indirect relationship between team regulatory focus and creativity.

Originality/value

This is one of first studies to explore an underlying mechanism linking team regulatory focus and both team innovation and member creativity. The authors provide a more complete view of the creative and innovation implications of team-level self-regulation.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71602067), the Humanity and Social Science on Youth Fund of the Ministry of Education (15YJCZH084), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016M601387) for their research support. This paper was partially supported by Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology with project Grant No. MOST 104-2410-H-277-001-MY2.

Citation

Li, C.-R., Li, C.-X. and Lin, C.-J. (2018), "How and when team regulatory focus influences team innovation and member creativity", Personnel Review, Vol. 47 No. 1, pp. 95-117. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-09-2016-0236

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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