Leadership substitutes and personality impact on time and quality in virtual new product development projects

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" This unique integration of leadership, personality, social desirability, and project-level factors, analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis, multivariate regression, and MANCOVA, provided an insightful perspective on virtual NPD team performance. Despite the lack of equivalent literature to compare with, the incremental results listed here did corroborate with existing leadership and interpersonal competency studies. The MLQ transformation leadership, NEO5 personality dimensions, and SDS social desirability constructs were validated (with lower reliabilities as compared with the literature). Bestsubsets regression identified 12 significant predictors of NPD project performance: transactional leadership, consideration, inspiration, moderate neuroticism, extroversion, openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, moderate social desirability, good prior personnel evaluations, repeat team projects, and PM experience." (p. 85)

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