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Intra project team disagreement, conflict communications, and team performance in cross-functional new product teams: A decision-making quality perspective

Tsun Jin Chang, Shang-Pao Yeh
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences | Vol 17, No 1 | a664 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v17i1.664 | © 2014 Tsun Jin Chang, Shang-Pao Yeh | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 18 June 2013 | Published: 11 February 2014

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Tsun Jin Chang, Shih Chien University, China
Shang-Pao Yeh, I-Shou University, China

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This paper develops and examines a model of the antecedents and consequences of decision-making comprehensiveness during the new product development process. This model firstly suggests a concave relationship between intrateam task disagreement and decision-making comprehensiveness. It also conjectures that conflict communications influence the effectiveness of decision-making comprehensiveness on new product teams’ performance. An empirical test of the proposed framework involves a survey of 220 cross-functional new product teams. The findings show that an inverse U-shaped relationship exists between intrateam task disagreement and decision-making comprehensiveness. It also indicates that collaborative communication has a negative effect on innovativeness, whereas contentious communication adversely affects constraint adherence. However, decision-making comprehensiveness partially moderates the relationships between conflict communications and team performance. Some managerial and research implications of the findings were also discussed in this study.

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