Impact of Team Goal Setting on Collaborative Innovation Performance in Chinese Construction Projects : The Critical Roles of Cognitive Psychology and Communication Behaviors

Improving collaborative innovation performance is essential. A significant challenge is how to effectively promote teams with notable differences to work towards innovation goals. Therefore, this study selected team goal setting, cognitive psychology and communication behaviors to investigate their effects on collaborative innovation performance located at the team level of construction projects. The results showed that team goal setting has a positive effect on collaborative innovation performance, cognitive psychology and communication behaviors mediate the effect of team goal setting on collaborative innovation performance and cognitive psychology has a positive effect on communication behaviors