创业型领导对团队创造力的跨层次影响研究

The Cross-level Effect of Entrepreneurial Leadership on Team Creativity

创业型领导是创业创新背景与高度不确定环境下的有效领导力,有助于企业构建竞争优势和实现可持续发展。本文基于团队知识涌现的过程导向理论,探究组织创业型领导对团队创造力的影响机制及边界条件。文章利用企业高层管理者与团队的纵向配对数据进行跨层次分析,发现组织创业型领导可以提升团队创造力,这种积极影响是通过激发团队跨界即团队与外部相关主体的积极互动而产生的,而团队认知多样性即团队成员的多元认知方式能增强以上关系。文章从团队行为过程视角拓展了创业型领导与团队创造力的关系研究,通过领导效能诠释创业如何驱动创新,为企业变革领导力与提高团队创造力提供了新的见解和途径。

In order to cope with the background of entrepreneurship and innovation and the highly uncertain environment,enterprises need to implement entrepreneurial leadership,guide employees to change,innovate and develop entrepreneurial opportunities to create strategic value and achieve sustainable development.The team is the basic unit of an enterprise,generating synergies through in-depth cooperation among team members.As an effective leadership in this context,how entrepreneurial leadership enhances team creativity is crucial to the innovation and development of enterprises.The research on the influence of entrepreneurial leadership on team creativity pays little attention to the conduction of the team’s external behavior process,and team creativity is the result of the complex team process.The flattening and flexibility of the organization make top managers carry out activities directly in the form of team.Therefore,it is necessary to clarify how entrepreneurial leadership at the organizational level affects the behavior process of the team,and then strengthen team creativity.Based on the process-oriented theory of knowledge emergence in teams,this paper explores the influence mechanism and boundary condition of entrepreneurial leadership on team creativity.Through the cross-level analysis of the longitudinal matching data between the senior executives and the R&D teams in high-tech enterprises,the results show that:(1)Entrepreneurial leadership at the organizational level has a positive impact on team creativity.(2)Entrepreneurial leadership can stimulate team boundary spanning and then improve team creativity.(3)Team cognitive diversity can enhance the promotion effect of team boundary spanning on team creativity.(4)The higher the team cognitive diversity,the stronger the positive influence of entrepreneurial leadership on team creativity through team boundary spanning.This research has the following theoretical contributions:Firstly,it expands the research perspective of the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and team creativity from the perspective of team behavior process.Secondly,it enriches the theoretical basis of the research on the impact of entrepreneurial leadership on team creativity.Finally,it highlights the cross-level effect of entrepreneurial leadership on team effectiveness.In addition,this research provides several practical implications:Firstly,top managers must respond to the changes of environment and the needs of enterprises with the entrepreneurial leadership model.Secondly,it is necessary for enterprise executives to mobilize various teams to break the rigid knowledge system and take the initiative to acquire valuable knowledge from the outside for knowledge updating,integration and reorganization,and form creative output.Thirdly,top managers should improve the diversification management of the team.