Differential implications of team member promotive and prohibitive voice on innovation performance in research and development project teams: A dialectic perspective. (1st October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liang, Jian; Shu, Rui; Farh, Crystal I.C.
• Other Names: Liu Wu guestEditor.; Tangirala Subrahmaniam guestEditor.; Lee Cynthia guestEditor.; Parker Sharon K. guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of organizational behavior. Volume 40:Number 1(2019)
• Page Start: 91
• Page End: 104
• Publication Date: 2018-10-01
• Subjects: innovation project stage -- promotive and prohibitive voice -- team innovation -- team knowledge utilization -- team reflexivity; Industrial sociology -- Periodicals; Organizational behavior -- Periodicals; Psychology, Industrial -- Periodicals; 302.35
• DOI: 10.1002/job.2325
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0894-3796

Abstract

Summary: How and when does team member voice facilitate team innovation? Integrating research on member voice and a dialectic perspective of innovation, we advance a model in which team member promotive voice enhances team innovation through team knowledge utilization, whereas team member prohibitive voice enhances team innovation through team reflexivity in a nonlinear fashion. We further propose that the differential effects of team member promotive and prohibitive voice will be stronger at different stages (idea generation vs. idea implementation) of the innovation cycle. Survey data from 78 research and development project teams showed a positive indirect effect between team member promotive voice and team innovation through team knowledge utilization, although this relationship was also mediated through team reflexivity. Moreover, the indirect effect of team member promotive voice on team innovation via team knowledge utilization was stronger for teams in the idea generation stage of team innovation. Results also confirmed a nonlinear indirect relationship between team member prohibitive voice and team innovation via team reflexivity such that the positive effects of team member prohibitive voice tapered off at high levels. Contrary to our expectations, the effects of prohibitive voice held regardless of stage. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.