Unraveling the double-edged effect of inter-team collaboration on team performance: the moderating role of interdisciplined collaboration

The current dissertation explores how inter-team collaboration affects team-level outcomes, specifically team knowledge creation and group averaged turnover intention. Using a sample of 398 individuals in 55 teams from two multidisciplinary research institutes in a large public university, the current study suggests that the level of inter-team collaboration has a dual effect on team outcomes, such that it has a positive association with team-level knowledge creation as well as increasing turnover intention. Also, I argue that the level of interdisciplinarity as a contextual factor that affects the relationship between team collaboration and both knowledge creation and turnover intention, such that, as the level of interdisciplinarity increases, the positive impact of inter-team collaboration on knowledge creation/turnover intention will be strengthened. Finally, I suggest two mediators (i.e., innovation climate and job interdependence) to investigate the black box of the relationship between inter-team collaboration and team outcomes.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Human Res & Industrial Rels

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Son, Jooyeon

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kramer, Amit
• Joshi, Aparna
• Chen, Ying
• Newman, Daniel A.

• Inter-team collaboration
• Interdisciplinarity

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2015 Jooyeon Son

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88269

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/88269