TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-dimensionality of learning in new product development teams
AU - Akgün, Ali E.
AU - Lynn, Gary S.
AU - Reilly, Richard
PY - 2002/6/1
Y1 - 2002/6/1
N2 - New product development team learning is important in today's turbulent and uncertain markets and technologies. However, the literature treats team learning as a single construct, ignoring its multi-dimensionality. In this study, we develop a multi-dimensional team learning framework based on socio-cognitive constructs. By studying 124 new product development projects, we show empirically that learning in new product development is best conceived as a multi-dimensional structure with nine correlated but distinct constructs including: information acquisition, information implementation, information dissemination, unlearning, thinking, improvisation, memory, intelligence and sensemaking. Further, we demonstrate that a model based on the multi-dimensionality of team learning provides a more robust explanation of new product success than does a unidimensional team learning model.
AB - New product development team learning is important in today's turbulent and uncertain markets and technologies. However, the literature treats team learning as a single construct, ignoring its multi-dimensionality. In this study, we develop a multi-dimensional team learning framework based on socio-cognitive constructs. By studying 124 new product development projects, we show empirically that learning in new product development is best conceived as a multi-dimensional structure with nine correlated but distinct constructs including: information acquisition, information implementation, information dissemination, unlearning, thinking, improvisation, memory, intelligence and sensemaking. Further, we demonstrate that a model based on the multi-dimensionality of team learning provides a more robust explanation of new product success than does a unidimensional team learning model.
KW - Cognition
KW - Organizational learning
KW - Product development
KW - Teamwork
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U2 - 10.1108/14601060210428168
DO - 10.1108/14601060210428168
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84986161343
SN - 1460-1060
VL - 5
SP - 57
EP - 72
JO - European Journal of Innovation Management
JF - European Journal of Innovation Management
IS - 2
ER -