Modeling team knowledge sharing and team flexibility: The role of within-team competition

作者：He Hongwei; Baruch Yehuda; Lin Chieh Peng

来源：Human Relations, 2014, 67(8): 947-978.

DOI：10.1177/0018726713508797

• knowledge sharing
• team collectivism
• team empowerment
• team flexibility
• within-team competition

This study examines the role of within-team competition (i.e. team hypercompetition and team development competition) in a team process. We developed and tested a model that associates team collectivism as the antecedent of within-team competition, and knowledge sharing and team flexibility as the outcomes. The model was empirically tested with data from 141 knowledge-intensive teams. The empirical findings showed that team collectivism had a positive relationship with team development competition and a negative relationship with team hypercompetition. Regarding the outcomes, team development competition and team hypercompetition had an indirect relationship with knowledge sharing and team flexibility through team empowerment. We offer a number of original contributions to the team effectiveness literature, especially by showing that team hypercompetition and team development competition have different impacts on team knowledge sharing and team flexibility.

• 出版日期2014-8