SOCIAL NETWORKS, COGNITIVE STYLE, AND INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE: A CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Carnabuci, Gianluca; Dioszegi, Balint
• 署名单位: Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2013.1042
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 881-905
• 关键词: KIRTON ADAPTION-INNOVATION; INDIVIDUALISM-COLLECTIVISM; Structural holes; creativity; work; personality; centrality; KNOWLEDGE; ADAPTERS; ratings

摘要

Integrating insights from cognitive psychology into current network theory on the social capital of brokering and closed networks, we argue that cognitive style is a critical contingency explaining the relation between social network position and innovative performance. Based on a complementary fit argument, we posit that a social network rich in structural holes enhances the innovative performance of employees with an adaptive cognitive style; however, individuals with an innovative cognitive style are most innovative when embedded within a closed network of densely interconnected contacts. Using data on the individual cognitive styles and complete workplace social networks of all employees within a design and manufacturing firm, we show that our theorized contingency mechanism accounts for a large share of empirical variation in employee innovative performance over and above existing social network explanations.