TY - JOUR
T1 - Team innovative capability
T2 - Does positive mood unlock the innovative potential of environmental cues?
AU - Mitchell, Rebecca
AU - Boyle, Brendan
AU - Nicholas, Stephen
PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - Drawing on team innovation and mood-as-information theories, this paper develops a moderated mediation model to explain the effect of environmental dynamism on team innovative capability. We argue that this effect occurs through an increase in cognitive diversity and is contingent on positive mood, which engenders a more expansive and flexible approach to problem solving. Data collected through a survey-based study of 63 US healthcare teams generates support for our arguments that environmental dynamism increases innovative capability and does so through cognitive diversity. Further, our data suggest that this path only exists when teams are characterized by positive mood. Overall, we find support for a moderated mediation model in which environmental dynamism increases innovative capability through cognitive diversity contingent on positive mood, which allows us to contribute significantly to literature on team innovative capability and mood-as-information.
AB - Drawing on team innovation and mood-as-information theories, this paper develops a moderated mediation model to explain the effect of environmental dynamism on team innovative capability. We argue that this effect occurs through an increase in cognitive diversity and is contingent on positive mood, which engenders a more expansive and flexible approach to problem solving. Data collected through a survey-based study of 63 US healthcare teams generates support for our arguments that environmental dynamism increases innovative capability and does so through cognitive diversity. Further, our data suggest that this path only exists when teams are characterized by positive mood. Overall, we find support for a moderated mediation model in which environmental dynamism increases innovative capability through cognitive diversity contingent on positive mood, which allows us to contribute significantly to literature on team innovative capability and mood-as-information.
KW - Capability
KW - Cognitive diversity
KW - Environmental dynamism
KW - Healthcare teams
KW - Positive mood
KW - Team innovation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099481743&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.01.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099481743
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 126
SP - 376
EP - 384
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
ER -