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Two goods in tension: Balancing autonomy and trust for innovative climate in teams

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  • Nauman Asghar

    (University of Liverpool)

  • Rodolphe Durand

    (HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales)

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We examine the effect of interaction of high levels of team autonomy and intra-team trust on team innovative climate. Isolation of teams with high levels of autonomy may be amplified in teams which have a higher level of intra-team trust leading to complacency and a reduced climate for innovativeness. We expect that such negative effects can be overcome when leadership points to a superordinate purpose which embeds the unit's actions into a superior objective shared by the whole organization. Using large-scale panel data (85,317 observations belonging to 76,387 teams from 1,501 firms) and three distinct samples, we find significant support for our predictions and the role of purpose-based leadership experience as a mechanism to balance trade-offs of team design features.

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  • Nauman Asghar & Rodolphe Durand, 2026. "Two goods in tension: Balancing autonomy and trust for innovative climate in teams," Working Papers hal-05610953, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-05610953
    DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6240114
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