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Interdisciplinary Cooperation and Knowledge Creation Quality: A Perspective of Recombinatory Search
Author(s) -
Ma Yucheng,
Pang Changwei,
Chen Haowen,
Chi Nan,
Li Yuan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.2163
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , perspective (graphical) , knowledge management , knowledge creation , quality (philosophy) , sociology , psychology , business , computer science , epistemology , marketing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , downstream (manufacturing)
Research on the performance of interdisciplinary teams has produced mixed findings. We argue that this debate can be usefully reframed in terms of expertise knowledge disparity and experience knowledge variety. We analyzed 237 papers in top management journals and found that moderate level expertise knowledge disparity produces novel combinations and higher level experience knowledge variety facilitates exchange, which increases the quality of knowledge creation. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.