Two Perspectives on Intellectual Capital and Innovation in Teams: Collective Intelligence and Cognitive Diversity

Ishani Aggarwal () and Anita Woolley ()
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Ishani Aggarwal: Carnegie Mellon University
Anita Woolley: Carnegie Mellon University

A chapter in Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2013, pp 453-460 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Teams are increasingly the locus of creativity and innovation in organizational settings, and understanding what affects their performance is critical to organizational performance. We draw on research from two different perspectives on intellectual capital to theorize about the enablers and disablers of innovation in teams. The first perspective draws on collective intelligence in human groups, and the second is related to team composition, specifically cognitive diversity. Borrowing from these two perspectives, we generate theory to integrate our understanding of how collective intelligence and cognitive diversity contribute toward (or detract from) the team’s potential to produce innovative solutions and products.

Keywords: Collective Intelligence; Cognitive Style Variables; Implementation Ideas; Visual-spatial Information Processing; Team Attributes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-0746-7_37

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