| Title: | The Roles and Interplay of Intragroup Conflict and Team Emotion Management on Information Seeking Behaviors in Team Contexts; |
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| Authors and Corporations: | , , |
| In: | Communication Research, 42, 2015, 5, p. 675-700 |
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SAGE Publications
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| Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
| Physical Description: | 675-700 |
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| ISSN: |
0093-6502
1552-3810 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0093650213476294 |
| published in: | Communication Research |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | |
| Collection: | SAGE Publications (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>This study developed a cross-level model to study the effects of contextual factors, including team-level conflict and team-level emotion management (EM), on how individual team members seek information. Cross-level analysis using data collected from 175 individuals in 30 teams showed that team-level relationship conflict (TRC) had a negative effect on individual information seeking (IS) behavior, whereas team-level task conflict (TTC) did not have a significant effect. EM at both team and individual levels had positive effects on individual IS behavior. The same set of analyses conducted using a subset of 22 of these teams at an earlier time point confirmed the same pattern of relationships. In addition, team-level EM interacted with TRC in influencing individual IS behavior, although the patterns varied for the two time points of data collection. Theoretical implications are discussed.</jats:p> |