Task conflict and team creativity: A question of how much and when.
作者研究了任务冲突与团队创造力之间的关系，认为这种关系取决于冲突的程度和发生的时间。基于71个中国地区信息技术项目团队的数据，作者发现任务冲突对团队创造力有曲线效应：中等程度的任务冲突最有利于创造力。此外，团队发展阶段调节了这一关系，早期阶段曲线效应最强，而后期阶段任务冲突与创造力无关。
Bridging the task conflict, team creativity, and project team development literatures, we present a contingency model in which the relationship between task conflict and team creativity depends on the level of conflict and when it occurs in the life cycle of a project team. In a study of 71 information technology project teams in the greater China region, we found that task conflict had a curvilinear effect on team creativity, such that creativity was highest at moderate levels of task conflict. Additionally, we found this relationship to be moderated by team phase, such that the curvilinear effect was strongest at an early phase. In contrast, at later phases of the team life cycle, task conflict was found to be unrelated to team creativity.