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. 2020 Sep 8:11:551970.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.551970. eCollection 2020.

How R&D Staff's Improvisation Capability Is Formed: A Perspective of Micro-Foundations

Hui He  1 , Yan Bai  1 , Junguang Gao  1 , Jinqiang Xie  2
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How R&D Staff's Improvisation Capability Is Formed: A Perspective of Micro-Foundations

Hui He et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

The study examines how R&D staff improvisation capability is formed based on theory of micro-foundations, that is, how R&D individuals, experience and external knowledge gathering, and minimal structure interact and work on their improvisation capability together. The results show that: (1) R&D staff's experience and external knowledge gathering have linear influences on their improvisation capability, respectively; (2) minimal structure has a curvilinear impact on improvisation capability; (3) minimal structure has a curvilinear moderating effect on the relationship between experience, external knowledge gathering and improvisation capability, respectively. The study suggests that managers keep minimal structure at the moderate level to promote their R&D people's improvisation capability.

Keywords: R&D staff; improvisation capability; inverted U-shaped effect; micro-foundations; minimal structure.

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