Title

Facilitating Innovation In Diverse Science Teams Through Integrative Capacity

Keywords

interdisciplinary; knowledge integration; team science; teamwork

Abstract

Knowledge integration in diverse teams depends on their integrative capacity-the social and cognitive processes, along with emergent states, that shape a team's ability to combine diverse knowledge. We argue that integrative capacity represents the potential that a team has to overcome various compositional, team, and contextual barriers to generating integrated and novel knowledge. This article focuses specifically on the unique challenges facing diverse science teams that have the goal of generating novel knowledge at the intersection of disciplinary, practice, and organizational boundaries. The integrative capacity of a science team is argued to help facilitate the social and cognitive integration processes necessary for effective team processes that enhance the likelihood of innovative team outcomes. Implications of our theoretical framework for practice and research on fostering innovation in diverse science teams are discussed. © The Author(s) 2012.

Publication Date

10-1-2012

Publication Title

Small Group Research

Volume

43

Issue

5

Number of Pages

527-558

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496412453622

Socpus ID

84866549367 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84866549367

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