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
研究了团队中创造性明星员工对团队创造力的双重影响：既直接提升团队创造力，又通过抑制非明星员工的学习行为间接削弱团队创造力，而团队协调能缓解这一负面效应。
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.