A Social Composition View of Team Creativity: The Role of Member Nationality-Heterogeneous Ties Outside of the Team
研究团队外部非正式社交网络如何通过成员国籍异质性和联系强度促进团队创造力，发现国籍异质性的弱外部联系对团队创造力最有利。
We sought to understand team member informal social network ties outside of the team as a way to achieve cognitive variation within the team, thereby facilitating creativity. Specifically, we take a configural perspective, which emphasizes individual team members and the heterogeneity and strength of their outside ties. We theorize that these characteristics of outside ties are important because they amend members’ schemas and the team’s cognitive architecture. Results of a study of 82 long-term MBA project teams suggest that both outside ties with nationality-heterogeneous individuals and weak outside ties independently facilitate team creativity. In addition, nationality-heterogeneous outside ties that are weak rather than strong are associated with higher team creative performance.