THE BLUEPRINT OF INNOVATION: AN FSQCA STUDY OF PERSONALITY CONFIGURATIONS IN TEAMS

Organizations are increasingly relying on team-based work systems to increase their levels of innovation (Mohrman, et al., 1995). Consequently, both researchers and practitioners have strived to find ways to design innovative teams by identifying the factors that promote team innovation (West, 2002). Including the right mix of people in the team is critical to the team's success and its ability to innovate (Mathieu et al., 2014), yet little is known about how to effectively build innovative teams (Chatzi et al. 2020) and only a few studies have examined the relationships between personality composition in teams and innovation (e.g., Den Hartog et al., 2020).