Effect of Team Power Distance and Collectivism on Team Creativity: From the Perspective of Shared Leadership

Abstract

Abstract: Drawing on social information processing theory, this study takes the perspective of shared leadership to explore the mechanism of how Chinese-styled team culture featured by team power distance and collectivism influences team creativity. Based on a sample consisted of 588 team member-leader dyads from 93 teams, the results reveal that team power distance has a negative impact on shared leadership; team collectivism has a positive impact on shared leadership; shared leadership plays a mediating role both in the negative relationship between team power distance and team creativity, and in the positive relationship between team collectivism and team creativity. The conclusions provide some important managerial implications for Chinese enterprises to value team collectivism culture construction, promote team shared leadership and then improve team creativity in the context of the current innovation-driven development strategy.

Key words: collectivism, power distance, shared leadership, team creativity

Hu Dongqing, Gu Qinxuan. Effect of Team Power Distance and Collectivism on Team Creativity: From the Perspective of Shared Leadership[J]. Management Review, 2022, 34(5): 167-175.

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