Team Dynamics and Creativity in 79 Multicultural Innovation Teams

79 innovation teams provide data on how Team Differential Atmosphere (TDA) undermines creativity through team collaboration and joint decision-making pathways. The study, authored by Yuanzhe Liu, uses a multi-source data collection approach and a moderated mediation model. It identifies team empathy as a buffer against TDA's negative effects.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between Team Differential Atmosphere (TDA) and team creativity scores across 79 teams.
• Model the mediating effects of team collaboration and joint decision-making processes on the TDA-creativity link.
• Test the moderating role of team empathy in buffering TDA's impact on team interaction processes.
• Compare the identity-exclusion signal of TDA against performance-related signals like Leader-Member Exchange Differentiation.

Strengths

• Data sourced from 79 real-world innovation teams using a multi-method approach.
• Examines specific micro-mechanisms (team collaboration, joint decision-making) linking leadership climate to creativity.
• Focuses on multicultural team context, a relevant setting for studying identity and inclusion dynamics.

Limitations

• Small sample size of 79 teams limits statistical power and generalizability of findings.
• Data is contained in a single 47.0 KB DOCX file, limiting direct machine-readability and analysis.
• No raw tabular data or variable columns are provided, only a manuscript describing results.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Yuanzhe Liu.

Collection Method

Multi-source data collection from 79 innovation teams.

Freshness

Last updated March 25, 2026.