Agent-Based Modeling Approach to a Team Creativity Pattern Analysis Based on Heterogeneity and Network Structure

Recently organizations have paid more attention to team creativity as a strategic resource for innovation and performances improvement. The purpose of this research is to find out the evolution pattern of team creativity longitudinally in order to explain how heterogeneity and network structure - degree centrality and structural hole - can affect team creativity. Through the pattern analysis by Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) simulations, it was found that both heterogeneity and network structure - degree centrality and structural hole - positively affect team creativity. Furthermore we also found that degree centrality and structural hole are more effective than heterogeneity in the long term perspective. This research can provide foundation for future research and expand the research coverage on team creativity by conducting longitudinal analysis, while previous researches mainly addressed this topic with cross-sectional approach.