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SAGE Publications, Small Group Research, 4(52), p. 481-503, 2020

DOI: 10.1177/1046496420978298

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Faultlines and Team Creativity: The Moderating Role of Leaders’ Cognitive Reappraisal

Journal article published in 2020 by Xinmei Liu ORCID, Xinxing Zhang ORCID, Xiaojie Zhang ORCID
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Abstract

Informational diversity is perceived as the key to improving team creativity. However, alignment along multiple informational diversity attributes, known as information-based faultlines, can both provide diverse knowledge and form subgroup bias. The key to reaping the benefits of information-based faultlines is to understand how to utilize the diversified knowledge and, meanwhile, reduce subgroup bias. This study aims to examine how team leaders’ cognitive reappraisal can play a such role. Based on data from 68 teams, we found that (1) information-based faultlines had a positive effect on knowledge utilization when team leaders’ cognitive reappraisal was high, (2) knowledge utilization had a positive effect on team creativity, and (3) team leaders’ cognitive reappraisal moderated the indirect relationship between information-based faultlines and team creativity through knowledge utilization.