THE BOON AND BANE OF CREATIVE STARS: A SOCIAL NETWORK EXPLORATION OF HOW AND WHEN TEAM CREATIVITY IS (AND IS NOT) DRIVEN BY A STAR TEAMMATE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Li, Yuan; Li, Ning; Li, Chuanjia; Li, Jingyu
• 署名单位: Tongji University; University of Iowa; Tsinghua University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2018.0283
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 613-635
• 关键词: INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITY; EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY; Knowledge transfer; GOAL ORIENTATION; firm performance; CROSS-LEVEL; INNOVATION; exploitation; ORGANIZATIONS; COORDINATION

摘要

Although previous research has highlighted the disproportional contributions of star employees to their teams, an emerging line of research has begun to examine the potentially negative consequences of team stars. Drawing on a social model of team creativity, we develop a dualistic model of the influences of team creative stars on team creativity. Specifically, we explore the roles of two types of team members-star and nonstar employees-in driving team creativity. Across two multiwave and multisource field samples, we find that a creative star who occupies a central position in the team workflow network has both a positive direct effect on team creativity and a negative indirect effect on team creativity via reducing nonstars' learning (i.e., exploratory and exploitative activities). Our study also reveals that team coordination can mitigate the detrimental effect of a star's centrality on nonstars' learning behavior, and subsequently buffer the indirect effect on team creativity.