دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مرور اجمالی از کارآفرینی، نوآوری و معنابخشی برای بهبود تصمیم گیری - اشپرینگر 2018

Introduction

The complexity, turbulence and rate of change of the business environment have intensified in recent decades (Ribeiro-Soriano and Urbano 2009). At the same time, small business owners and entrepreneurs have received greater recognition as drivers of economic growth. Several studies (Forsman 2011; McKeever et al. 2014) have reported that long-term economic growth and prosperity require participation from entrepreneurs. Both experts and government authorities seek to foster entrepreneurship as “an appropriate mechanism to face the impacts of the economic crisis” (GEM 2014, p. 100).

Entrepreneurship is increasingly considered a milestone on the road towards progress (Semrau et al. 2016). It contributes to countries’ development and prosperity and helps nations cope with growing environmental complexity (Welbourne and Pardodel-Val 2009). As a key driver of economic regeneration and growth, entrepreneurship receives considerable attention (Ferreira et al. 2017). Entrepreneurs identify and solve problems, which at the same time provide opportunities (Lee et al. 2009; Craig et al. 2014). In today’s environment, entrepreneurship encourages the competition that is necessary to reap the rewards of globalisation. One of the pillars of entrepreneurship is innovation (Eckhardt and Shane 2003; Reschke and Kraus 2008).

2 Contributions

“The Price of Team Spirit for Sensemaking through Task Discourse in Innovation Teams” explains how innovation teams can benefit from their different task understandings and perspectives. This issue is highly relevant because teams often balk when they realise their extended problem solving and creativity potential. The primary challenge for teams is to understand, question and integrate the full range of team members’ perspectives. Ratzmann, Pesch, Bouncken and Martínez-Climent introduce task discourse to make sense of teams’ inherent ambiguity. Task discourse is the open, constructive discussion of task understanding, task completion and problem solving. It enables team members to challenge and consolidate different perspectives. The present study not only describes how task discourse improves team performance by helping team members use different perspectives effectively, but also elaborates on how team creativity and feasibility testing stimulate task discourse. The study is based on data from a sample of 250 innovation teams in the German manufacturing industry. The results indicate that team creativity is positively related to task discourse, which is in turn positively related to team performance. An in-depth understanding of sensemaking in teams requires the consideration of contextual factors because task discourse is embedded in the social-affective team environment. The authors discuss team spirit as a crucial contextual factor of task discourse.