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Antecedents and Consequences of Team Stability on New Product Development Performance

Lynn, Gary - 2013

Group member change or team stability is a popular and important topic in the group and organizational behavior literature. Team member stability is viewed as a critical factor for an effectively functioning and performing group. Even though there is a plethora of studies on group member change...

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Knowledge Management in New Product Teams : Practices and Outcomes

Lynn, Gary - 2013

This paper explores the critical practices impacting a new product team's ability to learn and succeed. By investigating the practices of 281 new product teams from around the world, several factors emerged that impact a team's ability to acquire and use knowledge to reduce cycle time and...

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Antecedents and Consequences of Team Sensemaking Capability In Product Development Projects

Akgün, Ali E. - 2014

With the increasing popularity of organizational sensemaking in the literature, sensemaking capability of firms attracts many researchers and practitioners from different fields. Nevertheless, sensemaking capability is rarely addressed in the new product development (NPD) project teams in the...

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The Impact of Leader Personality on New Product Development Teamwork and Performance : The Moderating Role of Uncertainty

Aronson, Zvi H.; Reilly, Richard R.; Lynn, Gary - 2014

conditions of uncertainty. Our model posits teamwork as a mediating variable between leader personality and NPD performance ….We hypothesized that the personality variable of openness would have a stronger influence on teamwork and NPD performance when … indirect influence on NPD performance through teamwork when uncertainty was low. We used structural equation modeling to test …

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The Role of Personality in New Product Development Team Performance

Reilly, Richard R.; Lynn, Gary; Aronson, Zvi H. - 2013

The paper centers on the optimal team member personal style for new product development success. Although the role of personality in team performance is not well understood, research suggests that personality plays a critical role in the effective performance of teams. Personality variables...

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Autonomous Teams and New Product Development

Patanakul, Peerasit; Chen, Jiyao; Lynn, Gary - 2014

An autonomous team is an emerging tool for new product development (NPD). With its high degree of autonomy, independence, leadership, dedication, and co-location, the team has more freedom and stronger capabilities to be innovative and entrepreneurial. Several anecdotal cases suggest that...

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Antecedents and Consequences of Unlearning in New Product Development Teams

Akgun, Ali; Lynn, Gary; Byrne, John C. - 2014

Unlearning, which first appeared almost 30 years ago as a subprocess of the organizational learning process, has received only limited attention in the literature. Rather than building on empirical research, the existing scholarship is largely anecdotal, aimed at reviewing the literature and...

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Learning Process in New Product Development Teams and Effects on Product Success : A Socio-Cognitive Perspective

Akgun, Ali; Lynn, Gary; Yilmaz, Cengiz - 2014

The study purports to develop and empirically test a model of team learning process and its effects on team performance in new product development teams. Using the socio-cognitive theory of learning in groups and organizations, several hypotheses were tested to show that the primer components of...

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Knowledge Networks in New Product Development Projects : A Transactive Memory Perspective

Akgun, Ali; Byrne, John C.; Keskin, Halit; Lynn, Gary; … - 2013

Even though an individual’s knowledge network is known to contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of his or her work in groups, the way that network building occurs has not been carefully investigated. In our study, activities of new product development teams were analyzed to determine...

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Effect of Improvisation on Product Cycle Time and Product Success : A Study of New Product Development (NPD) Teams in the United States

Lynn, Gary; Reilly, Richard R. - 2013

For many years, the long established referral process for successfully developing and commercializing new products has been called a phased-review or "Stage-Gate" system. The purpose of this article is to test whether improvisation increases the odds of faster product launch and greater new...

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