ABSTRACT

Innovation is a collective and collaborative act. Even though ideas germinate in individuals’ minds, they need social interaction to be improved and brought to realisation. Therefore, much attention is now being paid to team collaboration as an organisational essential for innovation. Collaboration facilitates the combining of perspectives, competencies, and resources. However, it has been shown that limits arise when it comes to converging views into a shared perspective and its interpretation. Innovation is not all about pooling competencies and resources but also about immersion and reflection. It is a process of collaborative sensemaking that benefits from intimate and close collaboration.

In this paper, we investigate how collaboration between twos, before an idea is shared with a large team, could facilitate the later collaborative sensemaking process through which the larger team must pass in bringing the innovation to reality.

Through a laboratory experiment, we prove how collaborating in a close relationship in a pair has a positive impact on collaborative sensemaking in a subsequent collaborative effort in a larger team setting. In particular, we demonstrate how the pair acts as a pivot in the larger team and accelerates the rate of growing perception and understanding of the innovative idea.

摘要

创新是一种集体协作行为。即使想法在个人头脑中萌芽，他们也需要改进社交互动并使其实现。因此，团队协作作为创新必不可少的组织，现在受到了极大的关注。协作促进了观点、能力和资源的结合。然而，事实表明，将观点融合为共同的观点及其解释时会出现限制。创新不仅仅在于汇集能力和资源，还在于沉浸和反思。这是一个协作意义建构的过程，受益于亲密和密切的协作。

在本文中，我们研究了在与大型团队共享一个想法之前，两人之间的协作如何促进后来的协作意义构建过程，更大的团队必须通过该过程将创新变为现实。

通过实验室实验，我们证明了在一对亲密关系中的协作如何在更大的团队环境中的后续协作努力中对协作意义构建产生积极影响。特别是，我们展示了这对搭档如何在更大的团队中充当支点，并加快对创新理念的感知和理解的增长速度。