Dysfunctional Diversity : Entrepreneurial Learning in Cognitively Heterogeneous Teams
(2018) RENT Conference 2017- Abstract
- This study explores how cognitive heterogeneity at the team level-i.e., the degree to which team members adhere to conflicting cognitive frames-impacts entrepreneurial learning behavior. We analyze learning processes in a new-venture team over three time-periods, leveraging rich data from 20 interviews, 990 emails, and 62 internal documents. We find that during time-periods when the team encompassed individuals with a heterogeneous set of cognitive frames, learning was self-reinforcing. During other time-periods, when the team was cognitively homogenous, learning was explorative. We detail the social-psychological mechanisms underlying these findings and present a process model of entrepreneurial learning during each period.
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- author
- el Awad, Ziad LU and Brattström, Anna LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- unpublished
- subject
- keywords
- entrepreneurial learning, cognitive heterogeneity, faultlines, attribution
- conference name
- RENT Conference 2017
- conference location
- Lund, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2017-11-16 - 2017-11-17
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 3e78144c-bdc2-4ba1-b76d-8c1a5fb828eb
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- 2018-04-17 07:32:28
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