Conflict and Creativity in Interdisciplinary Teams

Kevyn Yong, Stephen J. Sauer and Elizabeth A. Mannix
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Kevyn Yong: GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Stephen J. Sauer: Clarkson University - Clarkson University
Elizabeth A. Mannix: Cornell University [New York]

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Abstract: We examine the effects of conflict and conflict asymmetry on creativity in interdisciplinary teams. Testing our hypotheses on teams working on graduate-level nanobiotechnology projects, we found task conflict to have a positive relationship with creativity whereas relationship conflict had a negative relationship with creativity. Our results also revealed that relationship conflict asymmetry had a positive effect on creativity. Examining the two components of creativity separately, we found that relationship conflict asymmetry explained variance in the novelty component, whereas task conflict, team size, and functional diversity explained variance in the usefulness component.

Keywords: creativity; conflict; conflict asymmetry; interdisciplinary teams (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06
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Published in Small Group Research, 2014, 45 (3), pp.266-289. ⟨10.1177/1046496414530789⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/1046496414530789

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