A study of the influence factors of university scientific research team cooperation

Xu Zhi, Chen Liyu, Wang Sihui

Science Research Management ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5) : 149-161.

Science Research Management ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5) : 149-161.

A study of the influence factors of university scientific research team cooperation

  • Xu Zhi, Chen Liyu, Wang Sihui
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This article tries to dig internal factors from the team level. Organizational behavior, management science and other disciplines provide this paper with a theoretical support, from which this paper extracts the main factors affecting the cooperation level of overall team: Heterogeneity, the complexity of the organizational structure, complete and balanced role, and team conflict. Besides, this paper also uses social network to analyze the team cooperative situation through questionnaires, using structural equation model methods, and the paper gets some main conclusions:(1) Large-scale groups (25 people or more) are inferior to small teams (10 people) in cooperative network density, the intensity of cooperation and cohesion; groups founded in short time have strongest team cohesion; and the more the teachers in teams the weaker the team cohesion; (2) Gender and age heterogeneity does not adversely affect cooperation, on the contrary, has a positive effect on the cooperative network and the cooperation cohesion; task-oriented heterogeneity has negative effect on cooperation, indicating that university research team did not achieve cooperation in essence;(3) The levels and Divided small groups in large-scale teams are generally above normal levels, leading the team organizational structure more complex and resulting higher costs of communication and coordination; and (4) Research team conflict has played a negative role on university research cooperation, the negative effects of the program conflict is more significant, thankfully, the conflict in university research team is not very strong, it has a certain relationship with the high quality of the members in team.

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scientific research team / cooperative degree / influencing factors / cooperation network

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