Purpose

This paper aims to extend understanding of how team creative potential translates into team creativity. Drawing on social exchange theories, the authors propose that reward interdependence produce cooperative intra-team interactions, which in turn enables aggregate levels of individual member creativity to translate into team creativity. Further, the authors propose that reward interdependence enhances this link indirectly by motivating collective norms around knowledge sharing.

Design/methodology/approach

Multi-source and multi-wave data was collected from 94 R&D teams in two large medical firms. At Time 1, team members assessed the degree of reward interdependence and knowledge sharing characterizing their team; team leaders rated each member’s individual creativity. Unit leaders reported on the team’s overall creativity at Time 2 (three months after Time 1).

Findings

The results indicate that the effect of aggregate member creativity (AMC) on team creativity is moderated by reward interdependence in such a way that when reward interdependence is high, AMC has stronger positive effects on team creativity. Furthermore, knowledge sharing, as motivated by reward interdependence, mediates this moderating effect.

Originality/value

By integrating the team design and team creativity literatures, this paper advances an interactive model in which team creative composition combines with reward interdependence and knowledge sharing to help team creativity.

中文翻译：

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从创意成员设计创意团队：奖励相互依存和知识共享的作用

目的

本文旨在扩展对团队创造潜能如何转化为团队创造力的理解。利用社会交换理论，作者提出，奖励相互依存会产生合作的团队内部互动，进而使个人成员创造力的综合水平转化为团队创造力。此外，作者提出，奖励相互依赖关系通过激励围绕知识共享的集体规范而间接地增强了这种联系。

设计/方法/方法

从两家大型医疗公司的94个研发团队中收集了多源和多波数据。在时间1，团队成员评估了团队相互奖励的相互依存程度和知识共享程度；团队负责人评价每个成员的个人创造力。部门负责人在时间2（时间1后三个月）报告了团队的整体创造力。

发现

结果表明，奖励相互依存可以缓解总成员创造力（AMC）对团队创造力的影响，即当奖励相互依存性较高时，AMC对团队创造力具有更强的积极作用。此外，以奖励相互依赖为动力，知识共享介导了这种调节作用。

创意/价值

通过整合团队设计和团队创造力文献，提出了一种互动模型，其中团队创造力构成与奖励相互依存和知识共享相结合，以帮助团队创造力。