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Leading via virtual communication: a longitudinal field experiment on work team creativity in an extreme context

verfasst von: Lan Wang, Xiao-Ping Chen, Jun Yin

Erschienen in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management | Ausgabe 1/2024

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COVID-19 has prompted diverse responses from governments and created an extreme context for organizations to operate. In this context, company leaders face fluctuated macrolevel policies, endure physical separation from their members, and must rely on virtual communication to conduct teamwork. Yet little is known about what and how leader communication can be effective in inducing team creativity to survive the extreme context. Building on the affective events theory and the literature on media richness, we develop a theoretical model explicating how leaders’ rich (as opposed to lean) virtual communication can mitigate the negative impact of stringent government responses to COVID-19 on work team creativity via a sequential mediation process: first by inhibiting team anxiety and then by facilitating team information elaboration. Data from a three-stage eight-day longitudinal field experiment, in combination with an experience sampling method with 251 employees, on a chain preschool in eight Chinese cities, provide strong support for the hypothesized model.

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Titel: Leading via virtual communication: a longitudinal field experiment on work team creativity in an extreme context
verfasst von: Lan Wang
Xiao-Ping Chen
Jun Yin
Publikationsdatum: 12.09.2022
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management / Ausgabe 1/2024
Print ISSN: 0217-4561
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-9958
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-022-09846-5

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