Drawing on emotion regulation theory, this study investigates if and how emotion suppression informs relationship viability within new venture teams (NVTs) when such teams face obstacles. In particular, we use a dyadic approach to examine the suppressor’s authenticity and team members’ perceptions of appropriateness as mediators in the link between emotion suppression and relationship viability. A round-robin study with 93 respondents nested in 37 NVTs, which generated 167 observations, provides empirical support for the theoretically derived model by showing that both authenticity and appropriateness fully mediate the relationship between emotion suppression and relationship viability. In particular, the findings show that the negative indirect effect of emotion suppression on relationship viability via authenticity is larger than the positive indirect effect via appropriateness. A follow-up study after two years indicates that relationship viability and emotion suppression significantly predict venture survival. Together, these findings make ample contributions to the literature and provide interesting opportunities for further research.

本研究借鉴情绪调节理论，调查当新风险投资团队 (NVT) 面临障碍时，情绪抑制是否以及如何影响关系可行性。特别是，我们使用二元方法来检查抑制者的真实性和团队成员对作为情绪抑制和关系可行性之间联系的中介者的适当性的看法。一项包含 93 名受访者的循环研究嵌套在 37 个 NVT 中，产生了 167 个观察结果，通过表明真实性和适当性完全调节情绪抑制和关系可行性之间的关系，为理论推导的模型提供了经验支持。特别是，研究结果表明，负情绪抑制通过真实性对关系生存能力的间接影响大于通过适当性对关系生存能力的间接影响。两年后的一项后续研究表明，关系的可行性和情绪抑制显着预测企业的生存。总之，这些发现为文献做出了充分的贡献，并为进一步的研究提供了有趣的机会。