An Asia-centric approach to team innovation: Cultural differences in exploration and exploitation behavior

Sylvia Hubner, Michael Frese, Zhaoli Song, Neha Tripathi, Tamara Kaschner and Xing Le Kong

Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 138, issue C, 408-421

Abstract: This paper analyses how cultural differences across China, India, and Singapore influence team exploration, exploitation, and innovativeness. Previous cross-cultural and innovation literature mainly focused on Western cultures or East-West comparisons. In this research, we investigate innovation related cultural specifics that differentiate team behavior in China, India, and Singapore (e.g., guanxi, jugaad, and kiasu), and investigate differences in team exploration, exploitation, and innovativeness across those three cultures. We test our model in a survey study with matched answers of team members and their supervisors in innovation teams across China, India, and Singapore. In line with our theorizing, our findings suggest comparably high levels of team exploration in India, and comparably high levels of team exploitation in China. Additionally, we find team exploration, more than team exploitation, relates to team innovativeness in China, India, and Singapore.

Keywords: Team innovation; Exploration; Exploitation; National culture; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296321006548
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:138:y:2022:i:c:p:408-421

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.09.009

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside

More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().