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- Title
Reflexivity, stress, and unlearning in the new product development team: the moderating effect of procedural justice.
- Authors
Lee, Les Tien‐Shang; Sukoco, Badri Munir
- Abstract
The success of new product development (NPD) depends on a team's abilities to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences and the flexibility to address rapidly changing environments. To develop innovative products it is desirable that these processes should not be constrained by current beliefs and routines. NPD teams therefore need to engage in an unlearning process to overcome any resistance to new ideas and to facilitate a fresh approach. The paper recognizes that the controlled experience of stress plays a part in unlearning (e.g., confusion about technology or market change can encourage changes) and argues that teams should systematically reflect on the progress they are making in projects and in unlearning. The fairness of procedures used by the management moderates the proposed relationships. Two hundred and ninety eight team members and 77 NPD team leaders participated in the study. The results indicate that team reflexivity positively influences unlearning and product innovation, while team stress has a negative effect. The perceived fairness of management procedures strengthens the positive effects of team reflexivity on unlearning and product innovation, and reduces negative effect of team stress.
- Subjects
NEW product development management; TEAMS in the workplace; JOB stress -- Social aspects; GROUP decision making; REFLEXIVITY; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
R&D Management, 2011, Vol 41, Issue 4, p410
- ISSN
0033-6807
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9310.2011.00645.x