New Knowledge Creation Dynamics in Multidisciplinary Teams : In Search of Innovation Practices

ISBN-13: 9783639108194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str.

Anat Lechner

Opis

The growing necessity to introduce innovations tomarkets has made firms more conscious of theirconception and consumption of knowledge as themeta-resource with which they compete. Consequently,the use of multidisciplinary teams, where knowledgeresources are brought together from differentdisciplines has gained tremendous popularity. Yetthese teams have often fallen short of realizingtheir innovation-creation potential due to unique andunusual team functioning problems. This researchuncovers and analyzes concurrent tensions ofcommitment, leadership and knowledge sharing thatemerge in multidisciplinary teams due to theirheterogeneous composition and often derail theircreative knowledge development performance. As found,tension management mechanisms including boundarymanagement, distributed leadership and helping-basedcollaboration enable multidisciplinary teamsrealizing their potential to innovate.

O autorze

Anat Lechner, PhD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Business
Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University, NY.