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| How Does Platform Leadership Improve Team Innovation Performance? A Chain Mediation Analysis Based on SEM and fsQCA |
| Li Min,Zhou Yingxia,Du Pengcheng |
| (School of Business, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China) |
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Abstract Continuous innovation is the key for organizations to gain sustainable competitive advantages against the increasing competition between the internal and external environments of enterprises. Platform leadership which emphasizes the importance of subordinate undertakings and encourages leaders to build a development platform for employees and for leaders and employees to grow together, has been proposed. Most of the previous studies have verified that platform leadership has a positive effect on individual innovation. However, there are few studies on the relationship between platform leadership and team innovation. Team innovation plays an important role in organizational innovation, and the existing research on the impact of platform leadership on individual innovation may not fully explain its impact on team innovation. Therefore, the impact of platform leadership on team innovation performance is the focus of this paper.#br#According to the connotation of platform leadership, this kind of leadership attaches importance to the growth of the leaders and their subordinates, embraces the diversity of team members, provides development planning for teams and individuals, and optimizes the platform in various ways, such as through organizational learning. Following the social information processing theory, this study believes that these characteristics of platform leadership can release positive information, thus promoting the formation of a team learning climate and fostering high knowledge field activity between leaders and team members and within team members to improve the team's innovation performance. Meanwhile, the team learning climate encourages team members to actively carry out knowledge exchange and thus improve the activity of the knowledge field. Therefore, this paper selects team learning climate and knowledge field activity as the mediators to explain the relationship between platform leadership and team innovation performance, and further links the two to build a chain mediation. In addition, considering that the process of team members ' knowledge interaction under the influence of team climate is affected by team environmental factors, this study further discusses the moderating effect of team psychological safety between team learning climate and knowledge field activity.#br#By employing the structural equation model ( SEM ), this study combines the fsQCA method to further analyze the antecedents of team innovation performance. All variables are measured using the Likert 5-point scale, except for the control variables. The feasibility of the study is guaranteed by a three-stage pre-survey. Then questionnaires through the online questionnaire survey platform ensure that the subjects come from a work team and are able to evaluate their straight-line leadership. Finally, the follow-up analysis is carried out based on the sample data of 496 knowledge workers from the high-tech industry.#br#The results of structural equation model analysis show that platform leadership is positively promoting team innovation performance; team learning climate and knowledge field activity play a mediating role between platform leadership and team innovation performance, respectively, and both of them play a chain mediating role; team psychological safety positively moderates the relationship between team learning climate and knowledge field activity. The results of qualitative comparative analysis not only support the above conclusions, but also find out two modes that improve team innovation performance, namely,leader-team interaction mode and team interaction mode '. It is also shown that there is asymmetry between the antecedent configuration of high team innovation performance and low team innovation performance.#br#The contributions of this study lie in three aspects. First, by extracting the leadership traits that are conducive to innovation in platform leadership, this study focuses on the aftereffect at the team level, and integrates platform leadership and team innovation performance in the same theoretical framework to verify the positive correlation between the two, thus enriching the research on the aftereffect of platform leadership and confirming the practicality of platform leadership; secondly, the mediating mechanism of platform leadership on team innovation performance is discussed, and the process of ' platform leadership shaping team environment—team environment influencing member behavior—obtaining positive team results ' is described; thirdly, the SEM and fsQCA methods are combined to further analyze the antecedents of high team innovation performance, and three paths of two modes of high team innovation performance are obtained, which provide guidance to improve team innovation performance.#br#
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Received: 11 September 2023
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