Can Entrepreneurial Team Heterogeneity Promote Innovation Performance: The Moderating Effects of Strategic Consensus and Team Cohesion

Abstract

As the main body of entrepreneurship in modern economic society, the entrepreneurial teams play an extremely important role in the development of entrepreneurial enterprises, technological innovation and economic prosperity. In this research, data were collected through the questionnaire survey from 106 entrepreneurial team members. It is aimed to analyse the positive moderating effects of strategic consensus and team cohesion on team heterogeneity on organizational innovation performance. The results show that strategic consensus positively moderates the effect of team heterogeneity on innovation performance; team cohesion positively moderates the effect of team heterogeneity on innovation performance; high strategic consensus and high team cohesion positively co-moderate the impact of team heterogeneity on innovation performance. Through empirical research, this paper enriched the academic findings in this field, and provided strategic advices and paradigm reference for developing entrepreneurial enterprises.