Experience distribution, experienced leaders, and team performance

Fenghua Bao, Longwei Tian, Xiangzhi Bu, Xunyong Xiang and Yapu Zhao

Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 2018, vol. 16, issue 1, 78-88

Abstract: Although research has indicated that organisational performance can be improved by investigating and learning from experiences, some studies have found that organisations may generate incorrect lessons or fail to learn. This study addresses this inconsistency by turning attention to experience distribution over time. Drawing from the experiential learning perspective, we argue that highly concentrated failure experiences and highly dispersed success experiences in a time period will impose negative impacts on organisational learning. Further, we also find that experienced leaders will ameliorate such negative effects through “circumventing” and “inspiring” mechanisms. We find support for our theory through a set of panel data collected from the teams of National Basketball Association during the 2003–2004 and the 2012–2013 seasons.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/14778238.2017.1408538

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