Purpose

This paper aims to explore how informational faultlines impact new product creativity through specific mechanisms. The study focuses on analyzing how knowledge hiding mediates the relationship between informational faultlines and new product creativity, and how team promotion regulatory focus and team prevention regulatory focus moderate this process.

Design/methodology/approach

This research investigates the proposed hypotheses by examining sample data from 65 team leaders and 370 employees, delving into the relationship between informational faultlines and new product creativity and its underlying mechanisms.

Findings

Knowledge hiding negatively mediates the relationship between informational faultlines and new product creativity; team promotion regulatory focus negatively moderates the relationship between informational faultlines and knowledge hiding; team prevention regulatory focus positively moderates the relationship between informational faultlines and knowledge hiding; team promotion regulatory focus negatively moderates the mediating role of knowledge hiding in the link between informational faultlines and new product creativity. The higher the level of team promotion regulatory focus, the weaker the mediating role of knowledge hiding between informational faultlines and new product creativity, and vice versa; team prevention regulatory focus positively moderates the mediating effect of knowledge hiding in the relationship between informational faultlines and new product creativity. The higher the level of team prevention regulatory focus, the stronger the mediating effect of knowledge hiding on informational faultlines and new product creativity, and vice versa.

Originality/value

This paper constructs a novel moderated mediation model based on the need-threat model. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first to explore the relationship between informational faultlines and new product creativity from the perspective of knowledge retention, effectively filling the research gap on the role of knowledge hiding between informational faultlines and team innovative output and the moderate role of team motivational-based psychological characteristics, such as team regulatory focus, in the aforementioned mechanisms.

中文翻译：

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信息断层中知识隐藏对新产品创造力的影响

 目的

本文旨在探讨信息断层如何通过具体机制影响新产品创造力。研究重点分析知识隐藏如何调节信息断层与新产品创造力之间的关系，以及团队促进监管焦点和团队预防监管焦点如何调节这一过程。

设计/方法论/途径

本研究通过检查 65 名团队领导和 370 名员工的样本数据来调查所提出的假设，深入研究信息断层与新产品创造力之间的关系及其潜在机制。

 发现

知识隐藏负向调节信息断层与新产品创造力之间的关系；团队晋升监管重点对信息断层和知识隐藏之间的关系产生负调节；团队预防监管重点积极调节信息断层与知识隐藏之间的关系；团队晋升监管重点负面调节了知识隐藏在信息断层和新产品创造力之间的联系中的中介作用。团队推广监管关注程度越高，知识隐藏在信息断层与新产品创造力之间的中介作用越弱，反之亦然；团队预防监管重点正向调节知识隐藏在信息断层与新产品创造力之间关系中的中介作用。团队预防监管重点水平越高，知识隐藏对信息断层和新产品创造力的中介作用越强，反之亦然。

 原创性/价值

本文在需求威胁模型的基础上构建了一种新颖的有调节的中介模型。据作者所知，这是首次从知识保留的角度探讨信息断层与新产品创造力之间的关系，有效填补了信息断层与团队创新产出和知识隐藏作用之间的研究空白。基于团队动机的心理特征（例如团队调节焦点）在上述机制中的调节作用。