Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Study on new product performance: Based on team familiarity and competence diversity

First, we propose a measure of competence diversity that is more comprehensive than the common functional diversity proxy. Then, we further observe a mediating effect of the instrumental use of information in the competence diversity - new product performance relationship. Finally, we discuss the moderating effect of familiarity among team members on the relationship between competence diversity and the instrumental use of information Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles "Study on New Product Performance:Based on Team Familiarity and Competence Diversity" by Anqiao Li, Mina He in the Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE 2011), May 2011 After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles. This paper is a copy of the original text from the paper cited below. The original text was translated and copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission. Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article: "Familiarity and competence diversity in new product development teams: Effects on new product performance" by Christophe Haon, David Gotteland and Marianela Fornerino in Marketing Letters, Vol. 20, No. 1, Sept 2009, Springer, pp. 75-79