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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chang, Tsun Jin
• Yeh, Shang-Pao

Titel

Intra project team disagreement, conflict communications, and team performance in cross-functional new product teams: A decision-making quality perspective

Ist Teil von

• South African journal of economic and management sciences, 2014-02, Vol.17 (1), p.91-107

Ort / Verlag

Pretoria: AOSIS

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper develops and examines a model of the antecedents and consequences of decision-making comprehensiveness during the new product development process. This model firstly suggests a concave relationship between intrateam task disagreement and decision-making comprehensiveness. It also conjectures that conflict communications influence the effectiveness of decision-making comprehensiveness on new product teams’ performance. An empirical test of the proposed framework involves a survey of 220 cross-functional new product teams. The findings show that an inverse U-shaped relationship exists between intrateam task disagreement and decision-making comprehensiveness. It also indicates that collaborative communication has a negative effect on innovativeness, whereas contentious communication adversely affects constraint adherence. However, decision-making comprehensiveness partially moderates the relationships between conflict communications and team performance. Some managerial and research implications of the findings were also discussed in this study.