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4. Cognitive Diversity of Top Management Teams as a Competence-Based Driver of Innovation Capability: How to Decode Its Contribution Comprehensively

verfasst von : Michael Hülsmann, Meike Tilebein, Philip Cordes, Vera Stolarski

Erschienen in: Strategies and Communications for Innovations

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

In order to gain and maintain innovation capability, organizations have to adapt their profiles and processes to perpetually changing environmental conditions. However, the resulting need for a high degree of flexibility, which includes avoiding an information undersupply by being stable but inflexible, entails the risk of an information overload. Therefore, a balance between an organization’s flexibility and its stability is needed. Top Management Team (TMT) cognitive diversity seems to constitute a promising resource, which under certain circumstances can be turned into an organizational competence, allowing for a high but stable level of organizational flexibility. Employing insights from complexity theory and adopting agent-based simulation is suggested as a further research method in order to deduce underlying causal inter-relations.

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Titel: Cognitive Diversity of Top Management Teams as a Competence-Based Driver of Innovation Capability: How to Decode Its Contribution Comprehensively
verfasst von: Michael Hülsmann
Meike Tilebein
Philip Cordes
Vera Stolarski
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Buch: Strategies and Communications for Innovations
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-17222-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-17223-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17223-6_4