MacCurtain, Sarah, Flood, Patrick C., Ramamoorthy, Nagarajan, West, Michael A. and Dawson, Jeremy
(2008)
Top team trust, knowledge sharing and innovation.
LInK Working Paper Series.
(Paper No. 05-08). The Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland.
In the present research, we developed a causal model of organizational innovation incorporating the literature on top management teams (TMT) and knowledge-sharing in organizations. We hypothesized that top team composition and trust would predict organizational innovation through the mediating variables of task reflexivity and knowledge-sharing. We tested the model using data collected from thirty-five knowledge intensive firms in Ireland operating in the software industry. Results indicated that top team trust, knowledge-sharing and task reflexivity have both direct and indirect relationships with organizational innovation. Implications for research and practice are discussed.