@article{Lovelace.2001,
title = {Maximizing Cross-Functional New Product Teams' Innovativeness and Constraint Adherence: A Conflict Communications Perspective},
author = {Kay Lovelace and Debra L. Shapiro and Laurie R. Weingart},
journal = {Academy of Management Journal},
number = {4},
pages = {779-793},
volume = {44},
year = {2001},
abstract = {Increasing competition resulting from the global and technological nature of markets has heightened the need for businesses to rely on cross-functional new product teams to produce innovations in a timely manner; yet functionally diverse teams' inevitable disagreements often appear to prevent this. In a study of 43 such teams, the authors found that the effect of task disagreement on team outcomes depended on how free members felt to express task-related doubts and how collaboratively or contentiously these doubts were expressed. Implications for managing the journey from disagreement to agreement in cross-functional new product teams are discussed.},
issn = {0001-4273},
keywords = {BUSINESS Industrial communicationCOMMERCIAL managementResearch, productsCOMPETITIONMARKETINGNEW productsPRODUCT }
}
::