The impact of connecting with Professional Virtual Forum, team member and external person on R&D employee creativity
•R&D employees’ Frequency of Connect with Professional Virtual Forum (PVF) significantly improved their creativity.•R&D employees’ centrality of intra-team knowledge network significantly improved their creativity.•R&D employees’ Frequency of Connect with External Person significantly im...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Computers in human behavior 2014-10, Vol.39, p.204-212 |
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Zusammenfassung: | •R&D employees’ Frequency of Connect with Professional Virtual Forum (PVF) significantly improved their creativity.•R&D employees’ centrality of intra-team knowledge network significantly improved their creativity.•R&D employees’ Frequency of Connect with External Person significantly improved their creativity.•The frequency of connect with PVF moderated centrality of intra-team knowledge network and employee creativity.
Accessing external knowledge is an important part of work for Research and Development (R&D) employees to get high creative performance. Currently, Professional Virtual Forum (PVF) in internet is becoming an important virtual knowledge source for R&D employees. However, up to now the impact of R&D employees’ connect with PVF on their creativity still waits to be explored. Furthermore, the interactive effects of connect with PVF and person-to-person knowledge sources on creativity are not clear. This paper empirically studied the 163 R&D employees came from 16 companies in China, and the results turned out that the R&D employees’ frequency of connect with PVF and intra-team, as well as with external person all significantly improved their creativity. Frequency of connect with PVF moderated the relationship between centrality of intra-team knowledge network and employee creativity, in such that when the frequency of connect with PVF was higher, the positive influence of centrality of intra-team knowledge network on employee creativity was also higher. Suggestions for future study on PVF and creativity are discussed. |
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ISSN: | 0747-5632 1873-7692 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.011 |