Paper

Research on Enhancing the Innovation Ability of Top Management Team Based on Knowledge Integration


Authors:
Liping Dai; Yuhui Ge; Yueming Chen
Abstract
The innovation ability of top management team (TMT) has a direct influence on the enterprise’s strategic decision. How to enhance their innovative capacity becomes a problem that needs urgent solution in both the academic field and business field. Integrating the pluralistic knowledge behind diverse characters of TMT provides a solution to this problem. Firstly, this article defines the innovation ability of TMT, and then discusses its influencing factors from the angle of knowledge combined with upper echelons theory and team process. Finally, based on the point of view of knowledge integration, the paper suggests three ways to improve TMT’s ability. They are structural optimization, process optimization and result optimization. What’s more, this research picks one of telecommunication companies as a case to develop an understanding of the issues about enhancing the innovation ability of TMT.
Keywords
Knowledge Integration; Top Management Team; Innovation Ability
StartPage
35
EndPage
40
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