Old wine in a new bottle: Impact of membership change on group creativity

By Hoon-Seok Choi, Leigh Thompson. 2005

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Subfields: Communication, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Group cognition, membership change, and performance: Investigating the benefits and detriments of collective knowledge ☆ (2007, background): “Experience working together makes it easier for group mem- 0749-5978/$ - see front matter 2007 Elsevier Inc.”
Past Success and Creativity over Time: A Study of Inventors in the Hard Disk Drive Industry (2007, background): “For instance, Choi and Thompson (2005) found that membership changes enhance the creativity of groups.”
Team Microdynamics: Toward an Organizing Approach to Teamwork (2014, background): “Surprisingly, most research has treated the people changing as essentially the same (note that Choi & Thompson, 2005 refer to their effect as “old wine in a new bottle”, signaling that it is not the changing content that matters as much as the change itself).”
First, get your feet wet: The effects of learning from direct and indirect experience on team creativity (2010, background): “On the one hand, team membership stability has been shown to decrease the number of ideas generated by groups (Choi & Thompson, 2005).”
Proactive Personality, Employee Creativity, and Newcomer Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study (2009, background): “As a result, newcomers with a proactive disposition tend to actively seek opportunities to identify new ways to improve their job ( Choi and Thompson 2005 ); usually through updating their knowledge and skills and identifying new work processes.”
Team Member Change, Flux in Coordination, and Performance: Effects of Strategic Core Roles, Information Transfer, and Cognitive Ability (2012, background): “Yet the research on member change in teams often has focused on member change as a simple stimulating effect for team creativity (Choi & Thompson, 2005), rather than treating change as potentially disruptive to teamwork.”
A Review and Integration of Team Composition Models (2014, background): “Finally, Choi and Thompson (2005) conducted a pair of experimental studies that examined the influence of membership change on group creativity.”
Workplace ostracism and hospitality employees’ counterproductive work behaviors: The joint moderating effects of proactive personality and political skill (2013, background): “As such, those employees will not respond with CWBs, but will actively seek opportunities to identify new ways to improve this situation (Choi and Thompson, 2005).”
Beyond productivity loss in brainstorming groups: The evolution of a question (2010, background): “Groups were more creative after they had experienced a change in membership than when membership remained stable (also see Choi & Thompson, 2005).”
9 Creativity in Organizations (2007, background): “Choi and Thompson (2005) addressed group composition vis-a-vis the effects of membership change and the introduction of newcomers in groups.”
Facilitating Innovation in Diverse Science Teams Through Integrative Capacity (2012, background): “This enhanced reflexivity in science teams can promote knowledge integration and creativity where members are being exposed to new knowledge and perspectives (Choi & Thompson, 2005).”