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How reflexivity enhances organizational innovativeness: the mediation role of team support for innovation and individual commitment

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  • Maria Luisa Farnese
  • Stefano Livi

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Reflexivity is a learning process that, through questioning and critically monitoring objectives and methods in use, promotes a change of habits and routines and, in so doing, fosters organizational performance and innovativeness. This paper looks at the contribution of team reflexivity to enhancing openness to innovation, and the mediating role of individual and team involvement. Specifically we tested whether affective commitment (Study 1, n=156) and a team climate of support for innovation (Study 2, n=152) facilitate reflexivity processes in promoting organizational openness to innovation. Overall, results confirmed that reflexivity enhances innovativeness, and this relationship is mediated by a high degree of involvement that increases the motivation of teammates and their engagement in innovation processes.

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  • Maria Luisa Farnese & Stefano Livi, 2016. "How reflexivity enhances organizational innovativeness: the mediation role of team support for innovation and individual commitment," Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 525-536, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tkmrxx:v:14:y:2016:i:4:p:525-536
    DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2015.13
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    1. Ahsan Ali & Hongwei Wang & Janet A. Boekhorst, 2023. "A moderated mediation examination of shared leadership and team creativity: a social information processing perspective," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 40(1), pages 295-327, March.

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