TY - GEN
T1 - The top team, trust, reflexivity, knowledge sharing and innovation
AU - MacCurtain, Sarah
AU - Flood, Patrick C.
AU - Ramamoorty, Nagarajan
AU - West, Michael
AU - Dawson, Jeremy
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - In the present study, we develop a model to predict market innovation drawing from literature on top management teams (TMT). We hypothesize that diversity and trustworthiness in the TMT should influence knowledge sharing and reflexivity such that reflexivity and knowledge sharing would be positively associated with innovation. Results indicate that age diversity was positively related to knowledge sharing ability while educational level, tenure and functional diversity of the TMT did not have any direct effect on reflexivity, knowledge sharing ability or motivation. However, educational level, tenure and age diversity of TMT had indirect effects on reflexivity and knowledge sharing through the intervening variable of TMT trustworthiness. Further, knowledge-sharing and task reflexivity had direct effects on market innovation. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
AB - In the present study, we develop a model to predict market innovation drawing from literature on top management teams (TMT). We hypothesize that diversity and trustworthiness in the TMT should influence knowledge sharing and reflexivity such that reflexivity and knowledge sharing would be positively associated with innovation. Results indicate that age diversity was positively related to knowledge sharing ability while educational level, tenure and functional diversity of the TMT did not have any direct effect on reflexivity, knowledge sharing ability or motivation. However, educational level, tenure and age diversity of TMT had indirect effects on reflexivity and knowledge sharing through the intervening variable of TMT trustworthiness. Further, knowledge-sharing and task reflexivity had direct effects on market innovation. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
KW - Innovation
KW - Reflexivity
KW - Trust
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858404943&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/ambpp.2009.44243015
M3 - Conference publication
VL - 2009
T3 - Academy of Management Proceedings
BT - Academy of Management 2009 Annual Meeting: Green Management Matters, AOM 2009
PB - Academy of Management
T2 - 69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2009
Y2 - 7 August 2009 through 11 August 2009
ER -