Team Trust and Team Learning in New Product Development Projects

Abstract

One of the most significant current discussions in project management and innovation management literature is New Product Development (NPD) projects, and they are enormously clear environments to be observed the terms of uncertainty, turbulence and volatility. Continuous improvement and learning is vital for NPD project teams and, hence, they are better able to take advantage of new opportunities in the complexity of today’s business markets. Team trust supports team creativity and learning, and promotes a better learning climate in an organization, and so team trust is especially crucial for uncertain and turbulence environments which require special capabilities such as adaptability, creativity, learning etc. In this study, we focus on examining whether there is a mediation effect of team trust between team factors, which are team autonomy, team member experience and team stability, and team learning.