Abstract
Experience, measured as seniority, is seldom sufficient to explain individual professionals’ abilities to contribute with valuable knowledge to team production. We need to pay attention to professionals’ knowledge and its fit to the project they engage in. In many industries and settings, the cognitive quality of knowledge held by individual professionals is the key microfoundation for project level performance. This paper empirically tests effects of project participants with and without knowledge diversity for project level performance for projects aiming for varying degrees of repetition and reconfiguration. The results indicate that project performance benefits form contributions from individuals holding diverse knowledge only when projects aim for high differentiation levels. This positive association is not just moderated, it may even be reversed in the case of professionals participating in low differentiation level projects aiming for repetition of already proven formulas.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2014 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2014: The Power of Words - Philadelphia, United States Duration: 1 Aug 2014 → 5 Aug 2014 Conference number: 74 http://aom.org/annualmeeting/ |
Conference
| Conference | The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2014 |
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| Number | 74 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Philadelphia |
| Period | 01/08/2014 → 05/08/2014 |
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