"Knowledge sharing, transactive memory system, and virtual team creativity"
Résumé
Numerous studies have investigated various factors influencing creativity and virtual team in parallel but there is little knowledge on whether and how virtual team creativity could occur. Some researchers focus on transactive memory system (TMS) as the critical factor for virtual team performance while others focus on knowledge sharing as one of the main factor for team creativity. In this study, we fill this gap by investigating the roles of knowledge sharing on virtual team creativity through TMS. TMS is the association of three behavioral dimensions: expertise location, trust, and knowledge coordination. We test our model with the sample of 477 virtual team members. The results reveal that the three components of TMS are the mediators of the positive relations between knowledge sharing and virtual team creativity. We also found that expertise and trust have a positive relation with knowledge coordination. Finally, the implications of our model for research and practitioners are discussed.