The Temporal Transition of Team Exploratory and Exploitative Learning
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2015-10-07
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This study investigated exploratory and exploitative actions, an organizational learning theory,
and conceptualized it at the level of the team. Results indicated that teams tend to pursue both
exploratory and exploitative actions simultaneously and exponentially over time, however these
learning behaviours were not related to subsequent performance. Additionally, team goal
orientations were found to be differentially related to each of the learning behaviours.
Supplemental analyses revealed that intra-team relationship conflict had a moderating effect on
the degree to which teams engaged in exploratory learning over time. Furthermore, task conflict
measured at the project midpoint, predicted earlier initial levels of team exploratory and
exploitative learning behaviours. The findings contribute to the growing body of research on
team learning, and offer unique insight into how learning behaviour unfolds over time and the
factors which impact these behaviours in teams.
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Psychology--Industrial
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Larson, N. (2015). The Temporal Transition of Team Exploratory and Exploitative Learning (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28397