 Corporate Entrepreneurship and Cross-Functional Fertilization: Activation, Process and Disintegration of a New Product Design TeamMichael A. Hitt, Robert D. Nixon, Robert E. Hoskisson and Rahul Kochhar Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 1999, vol. 23, issue 3, 145-168 Abstract: Corporate entrepreneurship is important to firms’ long-term competitiveness, and cross-functional fertilization contributes to firm innovation. Thus, cross-functional teams have become popular in the design and development of new products, but there has been little research on the specific characteristics and processes of such teams over time. This research longitudinally studied a cross-functional new product design team using multiple methods. The results suggested that organizational context, specifically top management team support and organizational politics, has more significant influence on team success than internal team characteristics. While the team experienced a positive beginning with few differences among the team members, conditions rapidly deteriorated because of a lack of top management support and dysfunctional organizational politics. Thus, the results have implications for effective management of cross-functional teams. This intensive longitudinal case study produced rich and valuable information and provides useful implications for corporate entrepreneurship and directions for future research on cross-functional teams. Date: 1999 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:entthe:v:23:y:1999:i:3:p:145-168 DOI: 10.1177/104225879902300309 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice |
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