The relationship between external communication and R&D team creativity has received increasing attention in the R&D management literature. However, little is known about the motivational mechanism between the two. We propose a second-stage moderation model based on social cognitive theory to explain whether, how and when R&D team’s external developmental feedback motivates its creativity. Using the data gathered from 452 R&D team members and 84 supervisors in a time-lagged field study, we found external developmental feedback had a positive effect on R&D team creativity via increasing team creative efficacy. Further, conditional indirect effect analyses found that a high level of cooperative goal interdependence strengthened the positive effect of team creative efficacy on R&D team creativity and the mediating effect of team creative efficacy between external developmental feedback and R&D team creativity.

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激发研发团队创造力：外部发展反馈与内部目标相互依存的社会认知效应

外部沟通与研发团队创造力之间的关系在研发管理文献中越来越受到关注。然而，人们对两者之间的激励机制知之甚少。我们提出了一个基于社会认知理论的第二阶段调节模型来解释研发团队的外部发展反馈是否、如何以及何时激发其创造力。使用从 452 名研发团队成员和 84 名主管在时间滞后的实地研究中收集的数据，我们发现外部发展反馈通过提高团队创造力对研发团队创造力产生积极影响。此外，条件间接效应分析发现，高度的合作目标相互依赖加强了团队创新效能对研发的正向影响。