Title :
How Team Spirit Improve Product Innovation: The Role of Shared Vision and Knowledge Acquisition
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Bus. Adm., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China
Abstract :
Based on a sample of 219 Chinese companies and a structural equation methodology, This paper discusses the relationship among team spirit, shared vision, knowledge acquisition and product innovation. Our results indicate that shared vision has a positive indirect impact on product innovation by Knowledge acquisition; team spirit positively affects share vision; team spirit doesn¿t have direct impact on knowledge acquisition and product innovation.
Keywords :
innovation management; knowledge acquisition; product development; production engineering computing; Chinese companies; knowledge acquisition; product innovation; shared vision; structural equation methodology; team spirit; Business; Companies; Computer science; Cultural differences; Equations; Hydrogen; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge management; Software engineering; Technological innovation; Knowledge acquisition; Product innovation; Shared vision; Team spirit;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan, Hubei
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3336-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSSE.2008.67
