The investigation of drivers of team performance has become the main issue of numerous publications in the last decades. Researchers of different disciplines in business administration (especially organization theory, marketing research, and human resources management) and psychology have been...

Via a study of innovating German consumers, we explore links between the “Big Five” personality traits and successful accomplishment of three basic innovation process stages by consumer-innovators: (1) generating an idea for a new product or product improvement, (2) developing a prototype...

Research shows that executives’ relationship to their work comprises a broad set of diverse variables. Drawing on the job demands-resources model and top management research, we identify four typical patterns of how top executives handle their work: detached professionals, internally driven...