Research on the transaction memory system in the team of early supplier involvement

Transaction memory system (TMS) is attracted many scholars from different fields to investigate. Nevertheless, the application of TMS theory on the team of the early supplier involvement (ESI) is surprisingly scant. We propose to demonstrate the TMS helps suppliers´ early involvement by eliciting and drawing a causal loop diagram to explicitly and systematically illustrate the process of knowledge flowing and learning, which have some differences between the traditional new product development team (NPD) and the team of ESI. And further examinations of our findings are showed that, in a dynamic environment, the ESI team, the more prior TMS experiences and stronger interaction pattern, the more stable of expectations, which could led to low adaptation of the membership change, forming inertias against the TMS.