Modeling team learning and team performance: The moderating effects of authoritarian leadership and benevolent leadership

Authors: Jui-Yu Chen

Journal: Corporate Management Review. Dec. 2023, 43(2): 1-35

Keywords: Exploitative learning, explorative learning, reflective learning, knowledge coordination, leadership, team performance

Abstract:
Drawing upon the social learning theory and knowledge-based theory, this research proposes a model that illustrates how collective knowledge is coordinated to improve team performance. In the model the study hypothesizes that three learning approaches (exploitative learning, explorative learning, and reflective learning) influence team performance indirectly through the mediation of knowledge coordination. At the same time, it hypothesizes that authoritarian leadership and benevolent leadership moderate the effects of the learning approaches on knowledge coordination. We perform empirical tests based on survey data from work teams in a large high-tech industry zone in northern Taiwan and offer research implications and future research directions.