dc.description.abstract | In today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing environment, previous research focused on whether the organizational structure in the changing environment requires flexible use of mechanisms. Yet, little was known that the control mechanisms inherent in the general organizations are suitable for use, especially affected under the unstable factors, such as the characteristics of the projects.
Previous researches mainly focus on the impact of project characteristics in new development project and team performance, without taking into account that in the high degree of project uncertainty will increase the difficulty of designing tasks, and lead to different type of conflicts, thereby affecting team performance.
Since few studies have investigated from the view of task, relational and process type of conflict, we further discuss all three types in depth. Our research focus on the impact of dealing with stable tasks, greater team structure--higher levels of specialization, formalization, and hierarchy—can affect different types of conflicts. Project characteristics (e.g Project uncertainty) are especially introducing to investigate the relation between the degree of team structure and conflicts.
Our empirical analysis focuses on Taiwan manufacturing industry and we send the questionnaires to who joined the NPD team, totally collecting 180 questionnaires. The empirical results demonstrate that high degree of team structure can reduce the conflict. Moreover, project uncertainty foster as a key catalyst for conflict, mitigating the negative effect between the degree of team structure and conflict.
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