Team diversity as dissimilarity and variety in organizational innovation |
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| Authors: | Dong Huo Kazuyuki Motohashi Han Gong |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Economics and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, University Town, Nanshan, Shenzhen, China;2. Department of Technology Management for Innovation, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan;3. Department of Marketing, College of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 777 Guoding Rd, Shanghai, China |
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| Abstract: | How team composition exactly influences innovation outcomes remains a complex and unsolved puzzle in the literature on creativity and innovation. Our study differentiates two types of team technology-related diversity—technological dissimilarity and technological variety, and investigates their influences on the impact of an invention created by a team. Analyses of over half million U.S. utility patents in the 1991–2005 period invented by teams reveal that technological variety of team inventors has a positive effect on invention impact, and that technological dissimilarity between team inventors plays both positive and negative roles, eliciting an inverted U-shaped effect. In addition, we find that the positive effect of dissimilarity is significantly reduced after controlling for variety. Theoretical and practical implications of our findings are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Team innovation Team composition Diversity Dissimilarity Variety Knowledge availability Knowledge utilization |
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