管理科学与工程系学术讲座系列2022年第5讲

主 题： How Collaboration Technology Use Affects IT Project Team Creativity? Integrating Team Knowledge and Creative Synthesis Perspectives

主讲人: 周京梅 (中国人民大学商学院讲师)

协调人: 陈志远

时 间：2022-04-12 16:00

地 点：明商706会议室

语 言：中/英文

讲座摘要：

Contemporary IT project teams entail creative problem solving to address increasingly complex business problems, thus highlighting the pertinent need of promoting IT project team creativity. Collaboration technologies are widely used in IT project teams, but we know little about what collaboration technology features can be used to promote IT project team creativity and their underlying influencing mechanisms. To address this important gap, our study identifies a set of collaboration technology features based on the team knowledge literature and decodes their influencing mechanism to IT project team creativity by extending the creative synthesis perspective, a novel theory originated in the management literature, to the IT project team context. Specifically, we identify three sets of collaboration technology features (i.e., awareness knowledge support, long-term knowledge support, and transitional knowledge support) and posit that their use can improve IT project team creativity through the mediating mechanism of creative synthesis, a team process including three dimensions (i.e., collective attention, similarity building, and enacting ideas). Our research model finds general empirical support through a multi-sourced survey of over 500 team members and their leaders from 62 IT project teams. Theoretical and practical implications are subsequently discussed.

主讲人简介：

Jingmei Zhou is an assistant professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, Renmin University of China. She earned her Ph.D. from the School of Business, City University of Hong Kong and School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China. She has been doing research on IS alignment, EIS usage in a dynamic context, and open platform innovation. She has published in MIS Quarterly, Information & Management and proceedings of academic conferences including the International Conference on Information Systems, the Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems, and the Academy of Management.