Cognitive Characteristics of an Innovation Team and Collaborative Innovation Performance: The Mediating Role of Cooperative Behavior and the Moderating Role of Team Innovation Efficacy

Abstract

Based on the theory of social cognition, this paper discusses the cognitive characteristics of an innovation team, the influence mechanism of cooperative behavior on collaborative innovation performance, and the moderating effect of team innovation efficacy in an enterprise collaborative innovation network. The hypothesis has been verified on the basis of 288 valid questionnaires. The results show the following: in the process of collaborative innovation, different dimensions of innovation team cognitive characteristics, namely collaborative innovation experience, the internal innovation environment of the enterprise, and emotional experience, have a significant positive impact on the collaborative innovation performance; and cooperative behavior plays a partial mediating role in the cognitive characteristics of the innovation team and collaborative innovation performance. In addition, the team’s innovation efficacy positively moderates the relationship between cooperative behavior and collaborative innovation performance. The results of this study not only expand the application of the social cognitive theory to the scope of collaborative innovation activities, but also have a certain reference significance to effectively mobilize the innovation initiative of the enterprise innovation team and improve the performance of collaborative innovation.

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