The effect of teamwork on innovation performance: Does organizational culture have some influence?

This study has two main goals: (1) to investigate the relationship between teamwork and incremental and radical innovation performance, and (2) to analyze the moderator effect of organizational culture on these relationships. Data were collected from 138 manufacturing companies in 11 countries. The research model and hypotheses devised are tested using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results show a positive, and nearly equal, effect of teamwork on radical innovation and incremental innovation performance. In addition, there was no change in the intensity of the relationships by different types of organizational culture. The findings show that in promoting teamwork-related practices, such as involving employees with different know-how and skills, developing self-managed teams with decision-making capacity and using employee reward systems for problem-solving may contribute to fostering innovation.